Around the year with Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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As we toil on, through trouble and pain
   There are hands that will shelter and feed,
But once let us dare to attain--
   They will bruise our bare hearts till they bleed.
   'Tis the worst of all crimes to succeed.
Know this as ye feast on a crust,
Know this in the darkness and dust,
                     Ye who climb.
                                                   Success.