Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Refuted

"Anticipation is sweeter than realisation"

It may be, yet I have not found it so.
      In those first golden dreams of future fame
      I did not find such happiness as came
When toil was crowned with triumph. Now I know
My words have recognition, and will go
      Straight to some listening heart, my early aim,
      To win the idle glory of a name,
Pales like a candle in the noonday’s glow.
 
So with the deeper joys of which I dreamed:
      Life yields more rapture than did childhood’s fancies,
      And each year brings more pleasure than I waited.
Friendship proves truer than of old it seemed,
      And, all beyond youth’s passion-hued romances,
      Love is more perfect than anticipated.
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