Shedding Tears

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    Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    We beg one hour of death, that neither she
    With widow’s tears may live to bury me,
    Nor weeping I, with wither’d arms, may bear
    My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.’
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)