Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Expectations

“PANDORA: What else remains for me? EPIMETHEUS: Youth, hope and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.”

“Since yesterday I have been in Alcalá. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa, When that dull distance shall no more divide us; And I no more shall scale thy wall by night To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.”