⁂ A poetical translation is requested.
Phila. Repos., IV-56, Feb. 18, 1804, Phila.
For the Philadelphia Repository.
Translation
Of Adelio's German Lines in last Repository.
HOPE.
As does the morn's resplendent light
Dispel the gloomy shades of night,
And the whole universe delight,
With the day's illustrious sight—
So when the adverse fates decree
Nothing to man but misery,
When they despair and pain impart
To the keen agonized heart—
Then does his course, Hope's sun from rest
Take thro' the troubled heaving breast;
Then disappears adversity,
And leaves behind felicity.
Exempt from horror is the breast,
Despair and pain sink into rest;
The sun of Hope affords delight,
And happiness supremely bright.