“Hope, frail but lovely shadow! thou dost come,
Like a bright vision on our pathway here,
Making the gloomy future beautiful,
And gilding our horizon with a light,
The fairest human eye can ever know.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Canto I, XIII
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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“Hope, frail but lovely shadow! thou dost come,Like a bright vision on our pathway here,Making the gloomy future beautiful,And gilding our horizon with a light,The fairest human eye can ever know.”

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“Hope, frail but lovely shadow! thou dost come,
Like a bright vision on our pathway here,
Making the gloomy future beautiful,
And gilding our horizon with a light,
The fairest human eye can ever know.”