“With thee, sweet Hope! resides the heav'nly light,
That pours remotest rapture on the sight”

— Thomas Campbell

Part I, lines 22 - 25
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Context: With thee, sweet Hope! resides the heav'nly light,
That pours remotest rapture on the sight:
Thine is the charm of life's bewilder'd way.
That calls each slumb'ring passion into play.

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British writer 1777–1844

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