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!
Thomas Hardy
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Song of Hope, Poems of the Past and the Present, pp. 352–353 (1919 edition); Complete opening stanza. Full three-stanza public-domain poem read in documented 1919 Macmillan edition. Original spelling and punctuation retained.
- Song of Hope, Poems of the Past and the Present, pp. 352–353 (1919 edition)
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