Hope.
By John Clare
This world has suns, but they are overcast; This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom; Life still expects, and empty falls at last; Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb. Life's journey's rough--Hope seeks a smoother way, And dwells on fancies which to-morrow see,-- To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day, And empty shadow of what is to be; Yet cheated Hope on future still depends, And ends but only when our being ends. I long have hoped, and still shall hope the best Till heedless weeds are scrambling over me, And hopes and ashes both together rest At journey's end, with them that cease to be.
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