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Parody on Lord Strangford's "Just like Love."
ST like Hope is yonder bow,
That from the center bends so low,
Where bright prismatic colours shew How gems of heavenly radiance glow,
Just like Hope !
Yet if, to the illusion new,
The pilgrim should the arch pursue,
Farther and farther from his view,
It flies; then melts in chilling dew,
Just like Hope ! Ye fade, ethereal hues ! for ever,
While, cold Reason, thy endeavour Sooths not that sad heart, which never Glows with Hope.
Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Turner Smith (4 May 1749 – 28 October 1806) was an English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet,
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