Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[Proportioned to my Hopes have largely been]
Proportioned to my Hopes have largely beenEver my Disappointments—for on Earth
Fruit of abortive Promise, dead in birth,
Doth evermore abound—and all its scene
Is strewed with wrecks and fragments—if we lean
Too fondly on the Staff of Hope our mirth
Will soon be changed to mourning, and the worth
The wonder of Creation's face serene,
With all its witchery shall pass swift away,
And we shall late and long and much repent,
Till we resign this tenement of clay,
And pass through darkness by a fearful rent,
Made by Death's phantom-fingers—when we pay
The unremitted debt and fall like arrows spent.
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