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The Lark Editions 
 
 A SELECTION of modern classics, with illustrations by 
 modern artists; in dainty form; paper boards, 7$c., 
 and edition* de luxe. 
 
 I. KIPLING. Mandalay. Illustrated by Robert Edgren. 
 II. MARKHAM. The Man -with the Hoe. Illustrated by Porter 
 Garnett. 
 
 In preparation 
 
 III. KIPLING. Recessional. Illustrated by Florence Lundborg. 
 
 IV. KIPLING. The Vampire. Illustrated by Lander Phelps. 
 
 To be followed by others. 
 
The Lark Edition 
 
 The Man with 
 the Hoe 
 
 Edwin Markham 
 
The 
 
 Man with the no 
 Hoe 
 
 Edwin 
 Markham 
 
 With illustrations 
 by Porter Garnett 
 
 Doxey's 
 
 At the Sign of The Lark 
 New York 
 
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Copyright, 1899 
 
 UNIVERSITY PRESS . JOHN WILSON 
 AND SON CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. 
 
\ 6 s 1 "2. 
 
 Reprinted as originally published 
 in the tf San Francisco Examiner" 
 
 The illustrations and decorative designs 
 in this volume are by Porter Garnett 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
GOD made Man in/tu own Image./* t 
 
 owed by the weight 
 of centuries he leans 
 Upon his hoe and 
 gazes on the ground, 
 he emptiness of ages in his 
 
 face, 
 
 nd on his back the burden 
 of the world. 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
 ho loosened and let down 
 
 this brutal jaw? 
 hose was the hand that 
 
 slanted back this brow ? 
 hose breath blew out the 
 
 light within this brain ? 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
 ho made him dead to rap- 
 ture and despair, 
 
 thing that grieves not and 
 that never hopes, 
 
 tolid and stunned, a brother 
 to the ox ? 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
 s this the Thing the Lord 
 God made and gave 
 
 o have dominion over sea 
 and land; 
 
 o trace the stars and search 
 the heavens for power; 
 
 o feel the passion of Eter- 
 nity? 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
 s this the Dream He dreamed 
 who shaped the suns 
 
 nd pillared the blue firma- 
 ment with light? 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
 own all the stretch of hell 
 to its last gulf 
 
 here is no shape more terri- 
 ble than this 
 
 ore tongued with censure of 
 the world's blind greed 
 
 ore filled with signs and por- 
 tents for the soul 
 
 ore fraught with menace to 
 the universe. 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
 hat gulfs between him and 
 the seraphim ! 
 
 lave of the wheel of labor, 
 what to him 
 
 re Plato and the swing of 
 Pleiades? 
 
 hat the long reaches of the 
 peaks of song, 
 
 he rift of dawn, the redden- 
 ing of the rose? 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
 hrough this dread shape the 
 suffering ages look; 
 
 ime's tragedy is in that 
 aching stoop; 
 
 hrough this dread shape 
 humanity betrayed, 
 
 lundered, profaned and dis- 
 inherited, 
 
 ries protest to the Judges of 
 the World, 
 
 protest that is also proph- 
 ecy. 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
 masters, lords and rulers in 
 
 all lands, 
 s this the handiwork you 
 
 give to God, 
 his monstrous thing distorted 
 
 and soul-quenched ? 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
 ow will you ever straighten 
 up this shape; 
 
 ive back the upward looking 
 and the light; 
 
 ebuild in it the music and 
 the dream; 
 
 ouch it again with immor- 
 tality ; 
 
 ake right the immemorial 
 infamies, 
 
 erfidious wrongs, immedica- 
 ble woes? 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
 masters, lords and rulers in 
 
 all lands, 
 ow will the Future reckon 
 
 with this Man ? 
 ow answer his brute question 
 
 in that hour 
 hen whirlwinds of rebellion 
 
 shake the world? 
 
The Man with the Hoe 
 
 ow will it be with kingdoms 
 and with kings 
 
 ith those who shaped him to 
 the thing he is 
 
 hen this dumb Terror shall 
 reply to God, 
 
 fter the silence of the cen- 
 turies ? 
 
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 MAN 
 WITH THE 
 |?HOE__ 
 
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