There Is No Hope for Those Who Hope Too Much

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There is no hope for those who hope too much,
Here to build a world where evils cease,
Eager to embrace a world at peace,
Yearning for Utopia, as such.
Even so, no truth ought such hope crush,
As cynicism has the longer lease,
Relying on self-interest to increase,
Offering a prickly underbrush.
For hopeless hope has much to recommend it.
The best need not eviscerate the good.
Hope of "should" can clear a path to "would,"
Even though it breaks the heart to tend it.
Dragons are the dreamers to defend it,
Resisting blame, as only dragons could,
Aware their role might be misunderstood,
Given that their dream's best chance might end it.
On hopeless hope depends all compromise.
Nor ought one undermine it, were one wise.