TO-MORROW. WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS. Susanna Blamire Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Blamire, Susanna, 1747-1794. The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire “The muse of Cumberland.” Now for the first time collected by Henry Lonsdale, M.D. with a preface, memoir, and notes by Patrick Maxwell, ... Edinburgh John Menzies, 61 Princes Street; R. Tyas, London; D. Robertson, Glasgow; and C. Thurnam, Carlisle. MDCCCXLII. 1842 pp. 71-72.

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TO-MORROW . WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS . HOW sweet to the heart is the thought of to-morrow , When Hope's fairy pictures bright colours display ; How sweet when we can from Futurity borrow A balm for the griefs which afflict us to-day ! When wearisome sickness has taught me to languish For Health , and the blessings it bears on its wing ; Let me hope ( ah ! how soon would it lessen my anguish ) , That to-morrow will ease and serenity bring . The pilgrim sojourning alone , unbefriended , Hopes , joyful , to-morrow his wanderings shall cease ; That at home , and with care sympathetic attended , He shall rest unmolested , and slumber in peace . When six days of labour each other succeeding , The husbandman toils with his spirits depress'd ; What pleasure to think , as the last is receding , To-morrow will be a sweet Sabbath of rest ! And when the vain shadows of Time are retiring , When life is fast fleeting , and death is in sight , The Christian believing , exulting , expiring , Beholds a to-morrow of endless delight ! The Infidel then sees no joyous to-morrow , Yet he knows that his moments must hasten away ; Poor wretch ! can he feel without heart-rending sorrow , That his joys and his life must expire with to-day !