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"Hope on, hope ever"-earth is not so drear, / Nor life a comfortless and empty dream; / The darkest clouds that gather o'er us here, / Are not the harbingers we sometimes deem; / For lo, how brilliant the returning ray, / As one by one their shadows pass away!
"Hope on, hope ever"-Is thy heart bereft / Of all that rendered life once dear to thee? / Amid the wreck the quenchless spark is left, / Whose light, though feeble, shall thy beacon be. / Though death's cold hand some kindred tie may sever, / Still let thy motto be, "Hope on, hope ever."
"Hope on, hope ever"-weary and oppressed, / Care's pallid seal stamped on thy sunken cheek; / There is a haven of eternal rest / Whose sacred joy no mortal tongue can speak; / Look upward in thine hour of dark despair: / Hope points to heaven, and drops her anchor there.