Ms. Wood, thanks for the information on "The Sixpence". I've prepared an ABC transcription of the melody from the score in Stanford's The National Song Book.

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X:1
T:It Is Not the Tear
C:Text by Thomas Moore, pub. 1810
C:Tune: The Sixpence
S:The National Song Book (p. 121); Charles Villiers Stanford, 1906. Only the melody is
S:transcribed here.
S:The text was published in Moore's _Irish Melodies_, vol. 3 (1810).
M:C
L:1/8
Q:1/4=92 " Smoothly, and in moderate time."
K:Eb
!p! (GB) | (c_d) c B G2 (FG) | B2 B2 C2 E F | G2 B G (FA) G F |
w: 1.~It* is* not the tear, at this mo-ment shed, When the cold turf has just* been laid
E4 E2 (GB) | (c_d) c B G2 F G | B2 B2 C2 E F | G2 B G (FA) G F |
w: o'er him, That can tell* how be-lov'd was the friend that's fled, Or how deep in our hearts* we de-
E4 E2 E F | "^cresc." G3 B e2 d e | (fe) (de) c2 (BA) | (GB) (cd) e3 d |
w: plore him. 'Tis the tear, thro' ma-ny a long* day* wept, 'Tis* life's* whole* path o'er-
c4 B2 !p! G B | (c_dc) B G2 (FG) | B2 B2 C2 E F | (G2 B) G (FA) (GF) | E4 HE2 ||
w: sha-ded; ;Tis the one** re-mem-brance,* fond-ly kept, When all light--er griefs* have* fa-ded.
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W: Thus his memory, like some holy light,
W: \    Kept alive in our hearts, will improve them,
W: For worth shall look fairer, and truth more bright,
W: \    When we think how he lived but to love them.
W: And as fresher flowers the sod perfume
W: \    Where buried saints are lying,
W: So our hearts shall borrow a sweetening bloom
W: \    From the image he left there in dying!