WEEPING WILLOW. 
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day, so many did David weep in those forty 
days, all the while moaning forth psalms of 
penitence. The tears from his eyes formed 
two streams, which ran from the closet into the 
ante-room, and thence into the garden. Where 
they sank into the ground, there sprang up two 
trees, the Weeping Willow and the Frankincense 
Tree. The first weeps and mourns; and the 
second is incessantly shedding big tears, in 
memory of the sincere repentance of David. 
