Around the year with Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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The lightning's stroke or the fierce tempest's blast
   Which fells the green tree to the earth to-day
Is kinder than the calm that lets it last,
   Unhappy witness of its own decay.
   May no men ever look on me and say:
"She lives, but all her usefulness is past."
                                                                Usefulness.