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Show I I 228 liOPE AND CoNFIDENCE. In vain docs it follow the wandering forms rrhat promise, yet always recede:- 'l'oo briefly the sunshine is darkcn'cl by storms: IIopc minstrels it onward, yet never informs Of the dangers unseen, that impede. The IIcart trusts the outward: "Of man 'tis the whole." 'rhus Corifitlcnce clings to decay ! It feels tl1c sweet homage tllat riches contro1,Aud laughs in contempt at the "·calth of the soul: And behold! now, friends wait for their prey. It trusteth in glory, and beauty, ancl youth,In love-vows that ne'er are to die: But soon the Death-king, in whose heart is no ruth, Enfolds it,-and mounting aloft, of 'l'ruth 'l'hus sings, as turns glossy the eye. "There's nothing so lovely and bright below, As the shapes of the puriilcd mind I Nought surer to which the weak heart can grow, On which it can rest, as it onward doth go, Than that Truth which its own tendrils bind. HoPE AND CoNFIDENCE. "Yes I Truth opes within a pure sun·ticle of bliss, .AnU shows in its ever calm fioocl, A transcript of regions, where no darkness is, ·where liOPE its conceptions may realize, And CONFIDEXCE sleep in 'rrhc Good.')) 229 |