There is a destiny that makes us brothers:
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back onto our own.Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
“A Creed To Mr. David Lubin”, st. 1, Lincoln & Other Poems (1901)
Quotations by:
Markham, Edwin
Come, clear the way, then, clear the way:
Blind creeds and kings have had their day.
Break the dead branches from the path;
Our hope is in the aftermath —
Our hope is in heroic men,
Star-led to build the world again.
To this Event the ages ran:
Make way for Brotherhood — make way for Man.Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
“Brotherhood,” The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899)
He drew a circle that shut me out —
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in.Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
“Outwitted”, The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913)
If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming
Can touch life’s height to a finer fire:
Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming
Were made by the heart’s desire?Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
“The Crowning Hour” (2), The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913)
One thing shines clear in the heart’s sweet reason,
One lightning over the chasm runs —
That to turn from love is the world’s one treason
That darkens all the suns.Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
“The Crowning Hour” (2), The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913)