The pleasures of hope, with other poems / By Thomas Campbell.

  • Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
Date:
1812
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Credit: The pleasures of hope, with other poems / By Thomas Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And, mark the wretch, whose wand’rings never knew The world’s regard, that soothes, though half untrue. Whose erring heart the lash of sorrow bore, But found not pity when it err’d no more. Yon friendless man, at whose dejected eye Th’ unfeeling proud one looks—and passes by; Condemn’d on Penury’s barren path to roam—- Scorn’d by the world, and left without a home— Ev’n he, at evening, should he chance to stray Down by the hamlet’s hawthorn-scented way, Where, round the cot’s romantic glade are seen The blossom’d bean-field, and the sloping green, Leans o’er its humble gate, and thinks the while— Oh ! that for me some home like this would smile, Some hamlet shade, to yield my sickly form, Health in the breeze, and shelter in the storm 1