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"Thus heavenly Hope is all serene, But earthly Hope, how bright soe’er, Still fluctuates o’er this changing scene, As false and fleeting as ’tis fair."
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Chauncy Hare Townshend, whose surname was spelt by his parents as Townsend, was a 19th-century English poet, clergyman, mesmerist, collector, dilettante and hypochondriac. He is mostly remembered for bequeathing his collections to the South Kensington Museum and the Wisbech & Fenland Museum in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. He added an 'h' to his surname in 1835, upon inheriting; his first name was ofte
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