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1850–1919

THE WINDS OF FATE

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

One ship drives east and another drives west, With the self-same winds that blow, ‘ Tis the set of the sails And not the gales

That tell them the way to go. Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate, As we voyage along through life, ‘ Tis the set of the soul

That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.

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