"Some shall reap that never sow; And some shall toil and not attain."
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Madison Cawein
Madison Julius Cawein (23 March 1865 – 8 December 1914) was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky, whose poem "Waste Land" has been linked with T.S. Eliot's later The Waste Land.
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