Recollections of Richard F. Fuller
Mem-1-09.txt, line 5074-5077“I lost in her a sister of great gifts and generous sensibilities, one who had bid me not only to "hope on, hope ever," but to always strive to believe in the great reward”
Fuller, Richard F. Recollections of Richard F. Fuller. Boston, 1936.
Inferred "Hope on, hope ever!" is the well-known refrain/title of a popular 19th-century poem/song by English poet Eliza Cook, widely quoted in the period A single short proverbial phrase used rhetorically in a eulogy, not a reading claim.