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HOPE AND DESPAIR by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE

Poet Analysis

First Line: SAID GOD, 'YOU SISTERS, ERE YE GO'
Last Line: WHICH THINK YE LOOKT THE MORE FAIR?
Subject(s): DESPAIR; HOPE; OPTIMISM;
SAID God, "You sisters, ere ye go
Down among men, my work to do,
I will on each a badge bestow:
Hope I love best, and gold for her,
Yet a silver glory for Despair,
For she is my angel too."

Then like a queen, Despair
Put on the stars to wear.
But Hope took ears of corn, and round
Her temples in a wreath them bound.—
Which think ye lookt the more fair?



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