Around the year with Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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Two blending paths beneath God's arching skies
Lead straight to Pleasure. Ah, blind heart of youth,
Not up fame's height, not toward the base god's goal,
Doth Pleasure make her way, but 'neath calm skies
When Duty walks with Love in endless youth.
                                                                  Sestina.