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Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,
Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,
Love is like a lovely rose, the world’s delight.
Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,
But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.
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Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Christina Rossetti

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