The Instinct Of Hope by John Clare
b"Clare read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\n The Instinct Of Hope \\nby John Clare (1793 \\u2013 1864)\\n \\nIs there another world for this frail dust\\nTo warm with life and be itself again?\\nSomething about me daily speaks there must,\\nAnd why should instinct nourish hopes in vain?\\n'Tis nature's prophesy that such will be,\\nAnd everything seems struggling to explain\\nThe close sealed volume of its mystery.\\nTime wandering onward keeps its usual pace\\nAs seeming anxious of eternity,\\nTo meet that calm and find a resting place.\\nE'en the small violet feels a future power\\nAnd waits each year renewing blooms to bring,\\nAnd surely man is no inferior flower\\nTo die unworthy of a second spring?"