1.
CELESTIAL Hope, fair Sister of Delight,
What nameless pleasures on thy course attend!
Thy smile can cheer Affliction’s darkest night,
And ev’ry solace, ev’ry comfort lend.
2.
Gay, lightly roving on thy airy wings,
The youthful heart is still with joy elate;
High on thy pinions to the skies she springs,
Above the evils of this mortal state.
3.
Enchanting Hope, how can thy smile adorn
The deepest gloom in sad affliction’s store!
And like the lustre of the rising morn
Disperse the darkness till it reigns no more.
4.
When sad misfortune with her blasting gale,
O’erturns the fabric which gay fancy rears,
Transporting Hope, thy fair far distant sail
In bright perspective to the view appears.
5.
When fickle fortune all her gifts denies,
And frowns terrific on the fainting mind,
When friends forsake and e’ery comfort flies
And fate gives ev’ry pleasure to the wind.
6.
How soft thy angel form in meekness clad!
Serene thro’ ev’ery storm thy placid smile!
When the torn heart’s with drooping sorrow sad,
Thy consolations e’ery woe beguile.
7.
When pensive beauty, in a cloister’d cell,
Regrets past pleasures now for ever fled;
Calling to mind the world she lov’d so well,
While round her frown the mansions of the dead.
8.
Thy gentle words, which sweetly promise peace,
Bid her look forward to a realm above,
Where all her woes and all her sorrows cease,
In the bright regions of Eternal Love.
9.
Thro’ ev’ry stage of this uncertain state,
Be thou, fair Hope! my constant faithful friend,
Teach me to bear Afflictions heaviest weight,
In my last Journey on my course attend.
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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