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1865–1914

SUCCESS

Madison Julius Cawein

How some succeed who have least need, In that they make no effort for! And pluck, where others pluck a weed, The burning blossom of a star,

Grown from no earthly seed. For some shall reap that never sow; And some shall toil and not attain,— What boots it in ourselves to know

Such labor here is not in vain, When we still see it so!

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