Parody on Lord Strangford's 'Just like Love.' <br />JUST like Hope is yonder bow, <br />That from the center bends so low, <br />Where bright prismatic colours shew <br />How gems of heavenly radiance glow, <br />Just like Hope ! <br />Yet if, to the illusion new, <br />The pilgrim should the arch pursue, <br />Farther and farther from his view, <br />It flies; then melts in chilling dew, <br />Just like Hope ! <br /> <br />Ye fade, ethereal hues ! for ever, <br />While, cold Reason, thy endeavour <br />Sooths not that sad heart, which never <br />Glows with Hope.<br /><br />Charlotte Smith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hope-412/
