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HOPE by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

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First Line: IS NOT THE LARK COMPANION OF THE SPRING?
Last Line: SWEET AS THE TENDER MYRTLE.
Subject(s): HOPE; OPTIMISM;

IS not the lark companion of the spring?
And should not Hope -- that skylark of the heart --
Bear, with her sunny song, Youth company?
Still is its sweetest music poured for love;
And that is not for me; yet will I love,
And hope, though only for her praise and tears;
And they will make the laurel's cold bright leaves
Sweet as the tender myrtle.



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