"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, And frustrate hope severer than despair."
— William Cowper

January 1, 1970

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"Hope, like the short-lived ray", l. 35 (wr. c. 1757; pub. 1825)

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"Hope, like the short-lived ray", l. 35 (wr. c. 1757; pub. 1825)