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“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Captivity. Act ii.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5fcb67035d1ea12a64ebc0227dc60b59eeb1894cff9b2a33944e3c4fa766eb34
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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