Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Hope and Love

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2478633Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill, Volume II — Hope and LoveLetitia Elizabeth Landon

CHAPTER XXVIII.


A PROJECT.


The sun was setting o'er the sea,
    A beautiful and summer sun;
Crimson and bright, as if not night,
    But rather day had just begun:
That lighted sky, that lighted sea,
They spoke of Love and Hope to me.

I thought how Love, I thought how Hope,
    O'er the horizon of my heart
Had poured their light like yonder sun;
    Like yon sun, only to depart:
Alas! that ever suns should set,
Or Hope grow cold, or Love forget!



Blanchard’s title is:

HOPE AND LOVE


A ‘Song’ from The London Literary Gazette, 25th December 1824