"O sweet To-morrow! -
After to-day
There will away
This sense of sorrow.
Then let us borrow
Hope, for a gleaming
Soon will be streaming,
Dimmed by no gray -
No gray!
Doff the black token,
Don the red shoon,
Right and retune
Viol-strings broken;
To-morrow shines soon -
Shines soon!"
Thomas Hardy, from 'Song Of Hope'
🖌️ Evelyn De Morgan, "Hope in a Prison of Despair" (1887; oil on wood)