If you dare to sail first o’er a new thought track,
For a while it will scourge and score you;
Then, coming abreast with a skillful tack,
It will clasp your hand and slap your back,
And vow it was there before you.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist

Poem (1892), “The World” st. 2, Once A Week, Vol. 10, No. 6 (1892-11-19)
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