HOPE ON!

HOPE ON!

Hopeon! For there is no rising starWhen shadows creep across our skyMore precious than this beam afarThat trembles through eternity.Hope on! That infinite desireIs but a foreglimpse of the dawnOf an immortal, holier and higherDay of perfection; therefore hope on!Hope on, lest the heart be cankeredBy its own sense of dumb despair!But rather let the soul be anchoredTo the veiled Heaven over thereWhere the light trembles through the mistAnd hope becomes more lucid faith,Yea, glad expectancy—for lo, the ChristBids life unfold its wings and deathAnd doubt begone! Therefore hope on!

Hopeon! For there is no rising starWhen shadows creep across our skyMore precious than this beam afarThat trembles through eternity.Hope on! That infinite desireIs but a foreglimpse of the dawnOf an immortal, holier and higherDay of perfection; therefore hope on!Hope on, lest the heart be cankeredBy its own sense of dumb despair!But rather let the soul be anchoredTo the veiled Heaven over thereWhere the light trembles through the mistAnd hope becomes more lucid faith,Yea, glad expectancy—for lo, the ChristBids life unfold its wings and deathAnd doubt begone! Therefore hope on!

Hopeon! For there is no rising starWhen shadows creep across our skyMore precious than this beam afarThat trembles through eternity.

Hopeon! For there is no rising star

When shadows creep across our sky

More precious than this beam afar

That trembles through eternity.

Hope on! That infinite desireIs but a foreglimpse of the dawnOf an immortal, holier and higherDay of perfection; therefore hope on!

Hope on! That infinite desire

Is but a foreglimpse of the dawn

Of an immortal, holier and higher

Day of perfection; therefore hope on!

Hope on, lest the heart be cankeredBy its own sense of dumb despair!But rather let the soul be anchoredTo the veiled Heaven over there

Hope on, lest the heart be cankered

By its own sense of dumb despair!

But rather let the soul be anchored

To the veiled Heaven over there

Where the light trembles through the mistAnd hope becomes more lucid faith,Yea, glad expectancy—for lo, the ChristBids life unfold its wings and deathAnd doubt begone! Therefore hope on!

Where the light trembles through the mist

And hope becomes more lucid faith,

Yea, glad expectancy—for lo, the Christ

Bids life unfold its wings and death

And doubt begone! Therefore hope on!


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