Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.

And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day
do I declare that I will read more

Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day
do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and
raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made
thee as the sword of a mighty man.

The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hope will cling,
To thought and impulse read more

The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hope will cling,
To thought and impulse while they flow,
That can no comfort bring,
That can, that can no comfort bring,
With those exciting scenes will blend,
O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;
But mem'ry is the only friend
That grief can call its own.

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes

Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
father of many nations; according to that which read more

Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So
shall thy seed be.