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Florence Earle Coates (Флоренс Эрл Коутс)


First and Last


Hope smiles a welcome, if no other smiles,
     Upon our entrance to this world of pain;
     And on each purpose of our youth again,
     With an inspiring sympathy, she smiles.
She leads us forth to battle, and beguiles
     Our anguish when the long fight proves in vain;
     Till, pierced by countless wounds, amongst the slain
     We leave her, while the victor foe reviles.
But even as we touch at ruin's verge,
     And hear the voices of despair that urge
     The fatal plunge to chaos, Hope alone,—
How healèd and how ransomed none may guess,—
     Rising again in pallid loveliness,
     Resumes her sway, a thousand times o'erthrown. 



Florence Earle Coates's other poems:
  1. Let Me Believe
  2. Love Sailed at Morn
  3. By the Conemaugh
  4. To the Tsar (1890)
  5. Cora


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