Hope, frail but lovely shadow! thou dost come, Like a bright vision on our pathway here, Making the gloomy future beautiful, And gilding our horizon with a light, The fairest human eye can ever know. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Hope, frail but lovely shadow! thou dost come, Like a bright vision on our pathway here, Making the gloomy future beautiful, And gilding our horizon with a light, The fairest human eye can ever know.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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