Poems and Extracts — Hope

The Tree of Knowledge, which in Eden prove'd

The Tree of Life, was thence to heaven remov'd:

Hope is the growth of earth, the only plant

Which enter Heaven, or Paradise cou'd want;

Hell knows it not, to us alone confined,

And cordial only to the human mind;

Receive it then to' expel these mortal cares,

Nor waive a med'cine, which thy God prepares.