“And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,—
That star of life's tremulous ocean.”

The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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“And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,—
That star of life's tremulous ocean.”