- Full Text
- Hopes vivid beams the fancy cheers
As down the slopes of ills we stray
Smiles through the wilderness of tears
The sunshine of a brighter day
- Listed on Page Number
- 327
- Sampler Worked By
- Marilla G. Williams
- Date of Sampler
- 1827
- Place Sampler Made
- Plainfield, NJ
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 242
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- A.C. “Hope,” The Monthly Magazine, 1 January 1809, No. 179, 6 of vol. 26, London: Richard Phillips, 1809, p. 557.
- Notes
- https://archive.org/details/monthlymagazineo26lond
This is the first stanza of this poem, which is only attributed to A.C.