Thomas Campbell on New Year
1777–1844 Scotland
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Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume
The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb.
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.
Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind,
But leave,—oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
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.
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
He more we live, more brief appear
Our life's succeeding stages;
A day to childhood seems a year,
And years like passing ages.