Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

by Unknown

At a Funeral. No. ii.

Thus heavenly hope is all serene,

But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,

Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,

As false and fleeting as 't is fair.

On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope.

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From Greenland's icy mountains,

From India's coral strand,

Where Afric's sunny fountains