Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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HOPE.
Hope is the only Mistress who repaysUs ever with like Love! and tho' it be
That she may leave us for awhile, yet we
First rudely scare her; in our darkest Days
She comes to share our Grief, and soft doth raise
The dim Veil from her Brow, and lo! we see
The wellknown Features smiling modestly,
On which nor Time, nor Pain have left a Trace!
And even when Age turns our Hair to gray,
And all the World's false Joys forsake us quite,
She, still unwearied in her Love, doth stay,
And growing ever fairer to our sight,
In all her Plenitude of youthful charms
Returns a Virgin still unto our Arms;
And when on the Gravesbrink the last Embrace
She gives, an Angel soars up in her Place!
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