Hope That Springs Eternal
Hope that springs eternal in The human breast, is fond of gin, Or Scotch or beer or anything Designed to help a hope to spring.
Samuel Hoffenstein
Hope that springs eternal in The human breast, is fond of gin, Or Scotch or beer or anything Designed to help a hope to spring.
Samuel Hoffenstein takes a grand, familiar sentiment—that hope never dies in the human breast—and gives it a comic, slightly tipsy spin. Where the old saying treats hope as noble and self-renewing, his version says that endless hope in us has a taste for gin, Scotch, beer, or really anything that…
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