Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied… - Thomas Hood

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Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied;
We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

Thomas Hood

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Thomas Hood (May 23, 1799 – May 3, 1845) was an English humorist and poet.

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That very night while gentle sleep
The urchin's eyelids kissed,
Two stern-faced men set out from Lynn,
Through the cold and heavy mist;
And Eugene Aram walked between,
With gyves upon his wrist.

He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.

Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old
To the very verge of the churchyard mould.

Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. - Thomas Hood

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