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/></a><figcaption>The crest and crowning of <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a>’s final <a href="/wiki/Star" class="mw-redirect" title="Star">star</a>, is <a href="/wiki/Brotherhood" title="Brotherhood">Brotherhood</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Markham" class="extiw" title="w:Edwin Markham">Charles Edwin Anson Markham</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/23_April" class="mw-redirect" title="23 April">23 April</a> <a href="/wiki/1852" class="mw-disambig" title="1852">1852</a> – <a href="/wiki/7_March" class="mw-redirect" title="7 March">7 March</a> <a href="/wiki/1940" class="mw-disambig" title="1940">1940</a>) was an American poet, most famous for his poem, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_With_the_Hoe" class="extiw" title="w:The Man With the Hoe">The Man With the Hoe</a>. </p> <meta 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soul of man is cast. </b> <ul><li>"A Creed To Mr. David Lubin", stanza 1, <i>LINCOLN & Other Poems</i> (1901), page 25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> the vermin that shall undermine <br /> Senate and citadel and school and shrine. <ul><li><i>The Vermin in the Dark</i>, stanza 5, lines 1 and 2, in <i>The Speaker</i> (1911), volume 6, number 3, page 249.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Man_with_the_Hoe_and_Other_Poems_(1899)"><span id="The_Man_with_the_Hoe_and_Other_Poems_.281899.29"></span><i>The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems</i> (1899)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edwin_Markham&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899)"><span>edit</span></a><span 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href="/wiki/Hand" class="mw-redirect" title="Hand">hand</a> that slanted back this brow? <br /> Whose breath blew out the <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> within this <a href="/wiki/Brain" title="Brain">brain</a>?</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Is this the Thing the Lord <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> made and gave <br /> To have dominion over <a href="/wiki/Sea" title="Sea">sea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Land" title="Land">land</a>; <br /> To trace the <a href="/wiki/Stars" title="Stars">stars</a> and search the <a href="/wiki/Heavens" class="mw-redirect" title="Heavens">heavens</a> for <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a>; <br /> To <a href="/wiki/Feel" class="mw-redirect" title="Feel">feel</a> the <a href="/wiki/Passion" title="Passion">passion</a> of <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">Eternity</a>?</b></li></ul> <ul><li>Down all the stretches of <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a> to its last gulf <br /> There is no shape more terrible than this — <br /> More tongued with <a href="/wiki/Censure" title="Censure">censure</a> of the world's <a href="/wiki/Blind" class="mw-redirect" title="Blind">blind</a> <a href="/wiki/Greed" title="Greed">greed</a> — <br /> More filled with <a href="/wiki/Signs" class="mw-disambig" title="Signs">signs</a> and portents for the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> — <br /> More fraught with menace to the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Through this dread shape the <a href="/wiki/Suffering" title="Suffering">suffering</a> ages <a href="/wiki/Look" class="mw-redirect" title="Look">look</a></b>; <br /> <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">Time</a>'s tragedy is in the aching stoop; <br /> Through this dread shape <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a> <a href="/wiki/Betrayed" class="mw-redirect" title="Betrayed">betrayed</a>, <br /> Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, <br /> Cries protest to the <a href="/wiki/Powers" class="mw-redirect" title="Powers">Powers</a> that made the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>. <br /><b> A protest that is also a <a href="/wiki/Prophecy" title="Prophecy">prophecy</a>.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, <br /> Is this the handiwork you give to <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, <br /> This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?</li></ul> <ul><li>O masters, lords and rulers in all lands <br /> How will the Future reckon with this Man? <br /> How answer his brute question in that hour <br /> When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores? <br /> <b>How will it be with kingdoms and with kings — <br /> With those who shaped him to the thing he is — <br /> When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world. <br /> After the silence of the centuries?</b></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Acrux.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Acrux.png/220px-Acrux.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Acrux.png/330px-Acrux.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Acrux.png 2x" data-file-width="428" data-file-height="341" /></a><figcaption>Our <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hope</a> is in <a href="/wiki/Heroic" class="mw-redirect" title="Heroic">heroic</a> men, <br /> <a href="/wiki/Star" class="mw-redirect" title="Star">Star</a>-led to build the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> again. <br /> To this Event the ages ran: <br /> Make way for <a href="/wiki/Brotherhood" title="Brotherhood">Brotherhood</a> — make way for <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">Man</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Brotherhood">Brotherhood</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edwin_Markham&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Brotherhood"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>The crest and crowning of <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a>’s final <a href="/wiki/Star" class="mw-redirect" title="Star">star</a>, is <a href="/wiki/Brotherhood" title="Brotherhood">Brotherhood</a></b>; <br /> For it will bring again to <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> <br /> Her long-lost <a href="/wiki/Poesy" class="mw-redirect" title="Poesy">Poesy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mirth" class="mw-redirect" title="Mirth">Mirth</a>; <br /> Will send new <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> on every <a href="/wiki/Face" class="mw-redirect" title="Face">face</a>, <br /> A kingly <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> upon the <a href="/wiki/Race" class="mw-disambig" title="Race">race</a>. <br /> And till it come, we men are <a href="/wiki/Slaves" class="mw-redirect" title="Slaves">slaves</a>, <br /> And travel downward to the dust of graves.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Come, clear the way, then, clear the way: <br /> <a href="/wiki/Blind" class="mw-redirect" title="Blind">Blind</a> creeds and kings have had their <a href="/wiki/Day" title="Day">day</a>.</b> <br /> Break the dead branches from the path; <br /> Our <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hope</a> is in the aftermath — <br /> Our hope is in heroic men, <br /> Star-led to build the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> again. <br /> <b>To this Event the ages ran: <br /> Make way for Brotherhood — make way for <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">Man</a>.</b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Shoes_of_Happiness,_and_Other_Poems_(1913)"><span id="The_Shoes_of_Happiness.2C_and_Other_Poems_.281913.29"></span><i>The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems</i> (1913)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edwin_Markham&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ApollianGasketNested_2-20.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/ApollianGasketNested_2-20.svg/220px-ApollianGasketNested_2-20.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/ApollianGasketNested_2-20.svg/330px-ApollianGasketNested_2-20.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/ApollianGasketNested_2-20.svg/440px-ApollianGasketNested_2-20.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="360" /></a><figcaption>He drew a <a href="/wiki/Circle" class="mw-redirect" title="Circle">circle</a> that shut me out — <br /> Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. <br /> But <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> and I had the <a href="/wiki/Wit" title="Wit">wit</a> to win: <br /> We drew a circle that took him in.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>He drew a <a href="/wiki/Circle" class="mw-redirect" title="Circle">circle</a> that shut me out — <br /> Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. <br /> But <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> and I had the <a href="/wiki/Wit" title="Wit">wit</a> to win: <br /> We drew a circle that took him in.</b> <ul><li>"Outwitted".</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Crowning_Hour">The Crowning Hour</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edwin_Markham&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Crowning Hour"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AnttlersNewM45.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/AnttlersNewM45.jpg/220px-AnttlersNewM45.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/AnttlersNewM45.jpg/330px-AnttlersNewM45.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/AnttlersNewM45.jpg/440px-AnttlersNewM45.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1737" data-file-height="1160" /></a><figcaption>Our ways go wide and I know not whither, <br /> But my <a href="/wiki/Song" title="Song">song</a> will search through the <a href="/wiki/Worlds" class="mw-redirect" title="Worlds">worlds</a> for you, <br /> Till the Seven <a href="/wiki/Seas" class="mw-redirect" title="Seas">Seas</a> waste and the Seven <a href="/wiki/Stars" title="Stars">Stars</a> wither, <br /> And the <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> comes <a href="/wiki/True" class="mw-redirect" title="True">true</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CL0024%2B17.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/CL0024%2B17.jpg/220px-CL0024%2B17.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/CL0024%2B17.jpg/330px-CL0024%2B17.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/CL0024%2B17.jpg/440px-CL0024%2B17.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3921" data-file-height="3921" /></a><figcaption>I will find you there where our low <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> heightens, <br /> Where the <a href="/wiki/Door" title="Door">door</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Wonder" title="Wonder">Wonder</a> again unbars, <br /> Where the old <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> lures and the old fire whitens, <br /> In the <a href="/wiki/Stars" title="Stars">Stars</a> behind the stars.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><p><b>It was ages ago in life's first wonder <br /> I found you, Virgilia, wild sea-heart; <br /> And 'twas ages ago that we went asunder, <br /> Ages and worlds apart.</b></p><p>Your luminous face and your hair's dark glory, <br /> I knew them of old by an ocean-stream, <br /> In a far, first world now turned to story, <br /> Now faded back to dream.</p> <ul><li>I</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>We are caught in the coil of a God's romances — <br /> We come from old worlds and we go afar: <br /> I have missed you again in the Earth's wild chances — <br /> Now to another star!</p><p>Perhaps we are led and our loves are fated, <br /> And our steps are counted one by one; <br /> Perhaps we shall meet and our souls be mated, <br /> After the burnt-out sun.</p><p><b>For over the world a dim hope hovers, <br /> The hope at the heart of all our songs — <br /> That the banded stars are in league with lovers, <br /> And fight against their wrongs.</b></p> <ul><li>II</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p><b>If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming <br /> Can touch life's height to a finer fire: <br /> Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming <br /> Were made by the heart's desire?</b></p><p><b>One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason, <br /> One lightning over the chasm runs — <br /> That to turn from love is the world's one treason <br /> That darkens all the suns.</b></p> <ul><li>II</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>So I go to the long adventure, lifting <br /> My face to the far, mysterious goals, <br /> To the last assize, to the final sifting <br /> Of gods and stars and souls. <ul><li>II</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p><b>Our ways go wide and I know not whither, <br /> But my song will search through the worlds for you, <br /> Till the Seven Seas waste and the Seven Stars wither, <br /> And the dream of the heart comes true.</b></p><p>I am out to the roads and the long, long questing, <br /> On dark tides driven, on great winds blown: <br /> I pass the runs of the world, unresting, <br /> I sail to the unknown.</p></li></ul> <ul><li>There are more lives yet, there are more worlds waiting, <br /> For the way climbs up to the eldest sun, <br /> Where the white ones go to their mystic mating, <br /> And the Holy Will is done. <ul><li>III</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I will find you there where our low life heightens, <br /> Where the door of the Wonder again unbars, <br /> Where the old love lures and the old fire whitens, <br /> In the Stars behind the stars.</b> <ul><li>III</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It will all come back — the wasted splendor, <br /> The heart's lost youth like a breaking flower, <br /> The dauntless dare, and the wistful, tender <br /> Touch of the April hour. <ul><li>III</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>As we go star-stilled in the mystic garden, <br /> All the prose of this life run there to rhyme, <br /> How eagerly then will the poor heart pardon <br /> All of these hurts of Time!</p><p><b>Ah, yes, in that hour of our souls dream-driven, <br /> In that high, white hour, O my wild sea-bride, <br /> The tears and the years will be all forgiven, … <br /> And all be justified.</b></p> <ul><li>III</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_Markham">Quotes about Markham</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edwin_Markham&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Quotes about Markham"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>His <a href="/wiki/Reputation" title="Reputation">reputation</a> has faded because of the somewhat dated nature of his verse; nevertheless, he remains a notable figure for his contributions to American poetry.</b> His work stands as an example of what American critics and readers valued near the turn of the century. His poetry offers insight into an important phase in the development of American letters. <ul><li>William R. Nash in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/markham/life.htm">"Edwin Markham's Life and Career — A Concise Overview"</a>, <i>American National Biography</i> (Oxford University Press, 1999).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edwin_Markham&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9; width: 250px; padding: 4px; spacing: 0px; text-align: left; float: right;"> <div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wikipedia"><img alt="Wikipedia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/50px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="46" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/75px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/100px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a><figcaption>Wikipedia</figcaption></figure></div> <div style="margin-left: 60px;"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article about: <div style="margin-left: 10px;"><i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Markham" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Edwin Markham">Edwin Markham</a></b></i></div> </div> </div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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