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"Hope tells a flattering tale, Delusive, vain, and hollow. Ah! let not hope prevail, Lest disappointment follow."
Miss ---- Wrother / The Universal Songster. Vol. ii. p. 86.
The Universal Songster. Vol. ii. p. 86.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain