Quote#Hope
My day-mind can endure
Quote byAlice Meynell · 1847–1922
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems (1923), "To Sleep", p. 121.
English (original)
My day-mind can endure Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. But O, afraid, unsure, My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.
— Alice Meynell
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