Thou'rt my hope, Thou'rt my despair,
Thou my hope,
Thou my despair,
Thou the candle burning,
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Thou'rt hope in despair,
Hope in despair, my Lord,
When despair ruffles me
And I find none
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A lamp of hope
I see it burning,
A lamp of hope and joy
Keeping up the promises
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Jesus is the last ope
And he will save you,
Will save us
Jesus,
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Is allegorical, full of references
To Yeats, Keats, Browning,
Tennyson
Sometimes mimicking, sometimes parodying,
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Light, light you
The candle of hope,
Light, light you
The lamp of hope and love
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The lamp of hope, I want to burn
Lest it be extinguished.
You be my lamp of hope, I too of someone
And as thus we shall keep it burning.
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Always, always burn the lamp of life,
Never put it out,
Maybe it the light will valuble for him,
Straying far in darkness,
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In the midst of traffic signals glowing red, yellow and green,
The jams coming to a standstill,
People stopped on,
Vehicles standing bumper to bumper.
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