Edwin Markham Short Quotes

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The sea is woman, the sea is wonder—
Her other name is fate.

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I fear the vermin that shall undermine
Senate and citadel and school and shrine.

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The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The smack and tang of elemental things.

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No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

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Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

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O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
Is this the handiwork you give to God,
This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?

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He went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
Goes down with a great shout upon the hills,
And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.

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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.

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So I go to the long adventure, lifting
My face to the far, mysterious goals,
To the last assize, to the final sifting
Of gods and stars and souls.

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It will all come back — the wasted splendor,
The heart's lost youth like a breaking flower,
The dauntless dare, and the wistful, tender
Touch of the April hour.

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Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heavens for power;
To feel the passion of Eternity?

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There are more lives yet, there are more worlds waiting,
For the way climbs up to the eldest sun,
Where the white ones go to their mystic mating,
And the Holy Will is done.

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There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.

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I will find you there where our low life heightens,
Where the door of the Wonder again unbars,
Where the old love lures and the old fire whitens,
In the Stars behind the stars.

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And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
Goes down with a great shout against the hills,
And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.

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By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

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