Dum Spiro, Spero

While I live, I hope; or, While there’s life, there’s hope.

Hope while you live, for who would caro to cope

With life’s three foes, unpanoplied with hope?

Hope against hope, while fed with vital breath,

Hope be your anchor in the hour of death.

E. C. B.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.