Do not lose that tranquillity now; do not, by extravagant lamentation, and by entirely giving yourself up to grief, put the opportunity for action into the hands of those who are plotting your bane.  If lament you must, (which I do not allow, lest you be in this respect like “them which have no hope,”) 1 Thess. iv. 13. do you, if so it seem good to you, like some wading chorus, choose your leader, and raise with him a chant of tears.