Around the year with Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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If you must pay the penalty for sin,
In vales of darkness, ere you pass on higher
I will petition God to let me go.
I would not wait on earth, nor enter in
To any joys before you.  I desire
No glory greater than to share your woe.
                                                     Sleep and Death [Two Prayers].