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Quotes from The Pleasures of Hope — Thomas Campbell

1777–1844 Scotland

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And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

The Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man? — a world without a sun.

The Pleasures of Hope (1799)

When peace and mercy, banish'd from the plain,
Sprung on the viewless winds to Heav'n again;
All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind,
But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind.

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Thus, while Elijah's burning wheels prepare,
From Carmel's height, to sweep the fields of air,
The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,
Dropt on the world — a sacred gift to man.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Campbell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.