<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118539" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>First and Last</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hope smiles a welcome, if no other smiles,<br>Upon our entrance to this world of pain;<br>And on each purpose of our youth again,<br>With an inspiring sympathy, she smiles.<br>She leads us forth to battle, and beguiles<br>Our anguish when the long fight proves in vain;<br>Till, pierced by countless wounds, amongst the<br>slain<br>We leave her, while the victor foe reviles.<br>But even as we touch at ruin's verge,<br>And hear the voices of despair that urge<br>The fatal plunge to chaos, Hope alone,—<br>How healèd and how ransomed none may guess,—<br>Rising again in pallid loveliness,<br>Resumes her sway, a thousand times o'erthrown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118539" data-title="First and Last de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="Hope smiles a welcome, if no other smiles,/Upon our entrance to this world of pain;/And on each purpose of our youth again,/With an inspiring sympathy, she smiles./She leads us forth to battle, and beguiles/Our anguish when the long fight proves i..."></div> </div> </div>

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