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Hope And I.

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Hope stood one morning by the way,     And stretched her fair right hand to me,     And softly whispered, "For this day     I'll company with thee."     "Ah, no, dear Hope," I sighing said;     "Oft have you joined me in the morn,     But when the evening came, you fled     And left me all forlorn.     "'Tis better I should walk alone     Than have your company awhile,     And then to lose it, and go on     For weary mile on mile,"     She turned, rebuked. I went my way,     But sad the sunshine seemed, and chill;     I missed her, missed her all the day,     And O, I miss her still.

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