A settled and sable-hued gloom—
As black as the pall o’er a tomb.
And I said—of it hoping to rid him—
“Dear Puss, what’s the cause of this gloom?”
He replied, “You’ll resume! You’ll resume!
’Tis the thought of those words, You’ll resume!”
Punch, August 26, 1882.
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Hope: An Allegory.
The metre of this Poem is adapted from Edgar A. Poe’s “Ulalume.”