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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!
Source: The Destroyer.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, (Nov 5 1850-1919), US writer, poet, journalist; She wrote 40 volumes of sentimental verse including Solitude.