Faith by Frances Anne Kemble. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Faith

Frances Anne Kemble (1809–93)


BETTER trust all and be deceiv’d,
And weep that trust, and that deceiving,
Than doubt one heart that, if believ’d,
Had blessed one’s life with true believing.

Oh, in this mocking world, too fast	5
The doubting fiend o’ertakes our youth!
Better be cheated to the last
Than lose the blessèd hope of truth.