'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Quotes from The Pleasures of Hope — Thomas Campbell
1777–1844 Scotland
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Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name?
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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave, oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
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Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore
Earth's loneliest bounds, and Ocean's wildest shore.
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But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.
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Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked—as Kosciusko fell!
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The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.
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What millions died that Caesar might be great!
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And rival all but Shakespeare's name below.
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That gems the starry girdle of the year.
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What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye
To pierce the shades of dim futurity?
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There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.
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Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll
Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!
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On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow,
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.
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What though my wingèd hours of bliss have been
Like angels visits, few and far between.
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While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.
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O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!
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Let Winter come! let polar spirits sweep
The darkening world, and tempest-troubled deep!
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O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Campbell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.