Living
Epigram
From Poems (1851), vol. I: Thoughts and Fancies
Living
They say Despair has power to kill
With her bleak frown ; but I say No :
If life did hang upon her will,
Then Hope had perish'd long ago :
Yet still the twain keep up their " barful strife,
For Hope Love's leman is, Despair his wife.
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