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"Still Hope, with magic mirror tries / My sinking heart to cheer, / And points where smiling prospects rise / Of many a circling year"

— Cobb, James (1756-1818)

Author

Cobb, James (1756-1818)

Work Title

Ramah Droog: a Comic Opera, in Three Acts. As Performed with Universal Applause at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By James Cobb

Place of Publication

London

Publisher

Printed by A. Strahan ... for T. N. Longman and O. Rees [etc.]

Date

1800

Metaphor

"Still Hope, with magic mirror tries / My sinking heart to cheer, / And points where smiling prospects rise / Of many a circling year"

Metaphor in Context

ELIZA.
Yes, my beloved Sidney! I shall once more rejoin thee, and share thy fate--perhaps effect thy rescue.

[Song.--Eliza.]

With trembling steps and sinking heart
I urge my weary way;
At every whispering breeze I start,
All terror and dismay.
Still Hope, with magic mirror tries
My sinking heart to cheer,
And points where smiling prospects rise
Of many a circling year.
Or when the sandy desart bright
Reflects the burning noon,
Or when the chilling damps of night
Arise and dim the moon.
Still Hope, &c.