Crossword-Solution: MOISTENS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Who would not weep for thee?—The tear, that has been a stranger to these eyelids for twenty years, moistens them as I gaze on thee.

This is the kindly and humble origin of a title the mere speaking of which to-day quickens the pulse and moistens the eyes of millions of Americans with the same thrill that the dear old flag arouses when we catch sight of it, especially an unexpected glimpse in some foreign land.

One is so close to Life in it--the stirring in the brown earth, the piercing through of green spears, that breaking of buds and pouring forth of scent! Why shouldn't one tremble, if one thinks? I have stood in a potting shed and watched Kedgers fill a shallow box with damp rich mould and scatter over it a thin layer of infinitesimal seeds; then he moistens them and carries them reverently to his altars in a greenhouse.

What moistens the lip and brightens the eye! What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie! I was sure these lines would meet with approval, and having "come down to the popular taste," I was prepared to do my best to please.

When a little of the water with which he moistens the clay remains over, he pours it on the ground and out of that he makes the bad and disobedient people.