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Whose was that voice, that whispering sweet, Promised methought long days of bliss sincere; Soothing it stole on my deluded ear, Most like soft music that might sometimes cheat Thoughts dark and drooping! ’twas the voice of hope. Of love and social scenes it seem’d to speak: Of truth, of friendship, of affection meek; That hand in hand along life’s downward slope, Might walk with peace and cheer the tranquil hours: Ah me! the prospect sadden’d as she sung, Loud on my startled ear the death-bell rung: Chill darkness wrapt the pleasurable bowers She built, while pointing to yon breathless clay, She cried, “No peace be thine, away, away!”
Whose was that voice, that whispering sweet, Promised methought long days of bliss sincere; Soothing it stole on my deluded ear, Most like soft music that might sometimes cheat Thoughts dark and drooping! ’twas the voice of hope. Of love and social scenes it seem’d to speak: Of truth, of friendship, of affection meek; That hand in hand along life’s downward slope, Might walk with peace and cheer the tranquil hours: Ah me! the prospect sadden’d as she sung, Loud on my startled ear the death-bell rung: Chill darkness wrapt the pleasurable bowers She built, while pointing to yon breathless clay, She cried, “No peace be thine, away, away!”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- W. L. Bowles (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 306 · printed citation: W. L. Bowles · subject: HOPE
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