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The Destroyer

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

With care, and skill, and cunning art
She parried Time's malicious dart,
And kept the years at bay,
Till passion entered in her heart
And aged her in a day!




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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
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