Meaning of marsh light | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A will o' the wisp.
2. A delusion, a false hope.
   figuratively

Examples

“"Thus, even thus, have⟳ I lived for full two thousand years - for some six and sixty generations, as ye reckon time - in a Hell, as thou callest it - tormented by the memory of a crime, tortured day and night with an unfulfilled desire - without companionship, without comfort, without death, and led on only down my dreary road by the marsh lights of Hope⟳, which, though they flickered here and there, and now glowed strong, and now were not, yet, as my skill told me, would one day lead⟳ unto my deliverer."”

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