Song of Hope

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Song of Hope by Thomas Hardy

 O sweet To-morrow! - 
 After to-day 
 There will away 
This sense of sorrow. 
Then let us borrow 
Hope, for a gleaming 
Soon will be streaming, 
 Dimmed by no gray - 
 No gray! 

While the winds wing us 
 Sighs from The Gone, 
 Nearer to dawn 
Minute-beats bring us; 
When there will sing us 
Larks of a glory 
Waiting our story 
 Further anon - 
 Anon! 

Doff the black token, 
 Don the red shoon, 
 Right and retune 
Viol-strings broken; 
Null the words spoken 
In speeches of rueing, 
The night cloud is hueing, 
 To-morrow shines soon - 
 Shines soon!

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