Hope

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1. Hope Was but a timid friend;
2. She sat without the grated den,
3. Watching how my fate would tend,
4. Even as selfish-hearted men.
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6. She was cruel in her fear;
7. Through the bars one dreary day,
8. I looked out to see her there,
9. And she turned her face away!
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11. Like a false guard, false watch keeping,
12. Still, in strife, she whispered peace;
13. She would sing while I was weeping;
14. If I listened, she would cease.
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16. False she was, and unrelenting;
17. When my last joys strewed the ground,
18. Even Sorrow saw, repenting,
19. Those sad relics scattered round;
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21. Hope, whose whisper would have given
22. Balm to all my frenzied pain,
23. Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,
24. Went, and ne'er returned again!