Ave is the morning greeting: vale that of the evening.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
Little the world cares what we do or what we are, said intelligence; the question with it is how much power do we own in this vale of tears.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
"No, reverend sir," is the first and last word of his reply, "the world has been no vale of tears to me."
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr