Prompt From Deep In OED

"Hope is harbenger of all mishappe."
G. Gascoigne, Fruites of Warre cxliv, in Posies sig. Iviiiv 

Hope, can't live without it, but how it can
mislead us, deceive us into darkness
of the darkest deeds, into refusal 
to acknowledge and atone aftermath

how to alloy hope, let it help us when
all seems dark and our will mostly broken,
though we know we mus…