exclaimed Pandora . `` How very beautiful ! '' `` Yes , they are like the rainbow , '' said Hope , `` because glad as my nature is , I am partly made of tears as well as smiles . '' `` And will you stay with us , '' asked Epimetheus , `` for ever and ever ? '' `` As long as you need me , '' said Hope , with her pleasant smile , -- `` and that will be as long as you live in the world , -- I promise never to desert you . There may come times and seasons , now and then , when you will think that I have utterly vanished . But again , and again , and again , when perhaps you least dream of it , you shall see the glimmer of my wings on the ceiling of your cottage . Yes , my dear children , and I know something very good and beautiful that is to be given you hereafter ! '' `` O tell us , '' they exclaimed , -- `` tell us what it is ! '' `` Do not ask me , '' replied Hope , putting her finger on her rosy mouth . `` But do not despair , even if it should never happen while you live on this earth . Trust in my promise , for it is true . '' `` We do trust you ! '' cried Epimetheus and Pandora , both in one breath . And so they did ; and not only they , but so has everybody trusted Hope , that has since been alive . And , to tell you the truth , I can not help being glad -- -LRB- though , to be sure , it was an uncommonly naughty thing for her to do -RRB- - but I can not help being glad that our foolish Pandora peeped into the box . No doubt -- no doubt -- the Troubles are still flying about the world , and have increased in multitude , rather than lessened , and are a very ugly set of imps , and carry most venomous stings in their tails . I have felt them already , and expect to feel them more , as I grow older . But then that lovely and lightsome little figure of Hope ! What in the world could we do without her ?
Hope spiritualizes the earth ; Hope makes it always new ; and , even in the earth 's best and brightest aspect , Hope shows it XXXXX be only the shadow of an infinite bliss hereafter !
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