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Hope , unyielding to Despair , Springs for ever fresh and fair ; Earth's serenest prospects fly ; Hope ' s enchantments never die . At fortune ' s frown , in evil hour , Though honour , wealth and friends
depart , She cannot drive , with all her pow ' r , This lonely solace from the heart : And while this the soul sustains , Fortune still unchang e d remains ; Wheresoe ' er her wheel she guides , Hope upon the circle rides .
The Syrens , deep in ocean s caves , Sing while abroad the tempests roar , Expecting soon the frantic waves To ripple on a smiling shore : In the whirlwind , o ' er the spray , They behold the halcyon play ; And , through midnight clouds afar , Hope lights up the morning star .
This pledge of bliss , in future years , Makes smooth and easy every toil ; The swain , who sows the waste with tears ,
In fancy reaps a teeming soil : What though mildew blast his joy , Frost or flood his crops destroy , War compel his feet to roam , Hope still carols " Harvest Home !"
The monarch exil'd from his realm , The slave in fetters at the oar , The seaman sinking by the helm , The captive on his dungeon floor ; All , through peril , pain and death , Fondly cling to parting breath ; Glory , freedom , power , are past , But the dream of Hope will last .
Weary and faint , with sickness worn , Blind , lame and deaf , and bent with age , By man the load of life is borne To his last step of pilgrimage : Though the branch no longer shoot , Vigour lingers at the root , And , in winter ' s dreariest day , Hope foretells returning May . * Included in the volume entitled " Greenland , with other Poems / 1 1819 .
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STANZAS ON THE ITALIAN REVOLUTION . BY LORD BYRON . ( From the Examiner . Italia ! oh , Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty , which became A funeral dower of present woes and
past , On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame , And annals grav'd in characters of flame . Oh , God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness
Less lovely or more powerful , and could&t claim Thy right , and awe the robbers back who press To shed thy blood , and drink the tears of thy distress !
Then mightst thou more appal , or , less desired , Be homely and be peaceful—undeplored For thy destructive charms ; then , still un tired , Would not be seen the armed torrents poured
Down the steep Alps ; nor would the hostile horde Of many-nationed spoilers from the Po Quaff blood and water ; nor would the stranger ' s sword Be thy sad weapon of defence , and so Victor or vanquished , thou the slave of friend or foe .
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HOPE . ( Imitated from the Italian of Serafino AquilanOy by Mr . James Montgomery , *)
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When , wrung with guilt , the wretch would end His gloomy days in sullen night , Hope comes , an unexpected friend , To win him back to hated light : ic Hold , " she cries ; and , from his hand Plucks the suicidal brand ; " Now await a happier doom , " Hope will cheer thee to the tomb . " When Virtue droops , as comforts fail , And sore afflictions press the mind , Sweet Hope prolongs her pleasing tale , Till all the world again looks kind . Round the good man ' s dying bed , Were the wreck of Nature spread * Hope would set his spirit free , Crying " Immortality 1 "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/56/
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