Lane

ʹTis a long lane that has no turning. Every calamity has an ending. The darkest day, stop till to-morrow, will have passed away.

“Hope peeps from a cloud on our squad,

Whose beams have been long in deep mourning;

ʹTis a lane, let me tell you, my lad,

Very long that has never a turning.”

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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.