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 with the F)oe #• 
 
 Written after seeing Millet’s 
 World-Famous Painting. 
 
 By edwirt jVIarkham 
 
 Originally published in " The San 
 Francisco Examiner" ^January the 
 fifteenth Eighteen hundred and 
 
 ninety-nine, Now first issued in 
 book form, March thirtieth. Eighteen 
 hundred and ninety-nine, 
 
 San Francisco, California ^ Published 
 by A. M. Robertson. 
 
Copyright, 1899, 
 By Edwin Markham 
 
Written after seeing- Millet’s 
 World-Famous Painting. 
 
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 Che )VIan with the F)oe 
 
 By Bdwin JMarkbam 
 
 God made man in His own image, 
 
 in the image of God made He him.— Genesis. 
 
 Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans 
 
 Clpon his hoe and gazes on the ground, 
 vj Che emptiness of ages in his face, 
 
 Hnd on his back the burden of the world. 
 
 Sd bo made him dead to rapture and des¬ 
 pair, 
 
 H thing that grieves not and that never 
 hopes, 
 
 ' Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox ? 
 
 *£Hho loosened and let down this brutal 
 Jaw? 
 
 <Ubose was the hand that slanted back 
 this brow? 
 
 Cdhose breath blew out the light within 
 this brain ? 
 
Xs this the Ching the Lord 6od made and 
 gave 
 
 'Co have dominion over sea and land; 
 
 Co trace the stars and search the heavens 
 for power; 
 
 Co feel the passion of Bternity? 
 
 Xs this the Dream F)e dreamed who shaped 
 the suns 
 
 Hnd pillared the blue firmament with 
 light ? 
 
 Down all the stretch of Dell to its last 
 gulf 
 
 Cberc is no shape more terrible than this— 
 
 ]YIore tongued with censure of the world's 
 blind greed— 
 
 JVIore filled with signs and portents for 
 the soul— 
 
 JVIore fraught with menace to the universe. 
 
What gulfs between him' and the sera¬ 
 phim! 
 
 Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him 
 
 Hre plato and the swing of Pleiades? 
 
 What the long reaches of the peaks of 
 song, 
 
 Che rift of dawn, the reddening of the 
 rose? 
 
 Chrough this dread shape the suffering 
 ages look; 
 
 Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop; 
 
 Chrough this dread shape humanity be¬ 
 trayed, 
 
 plundered, profaned and disinherited, 
 
 Cries protest to the fudges of the World, 
 
 H protest that is also prophecy. 
 
O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, 
 
 Xs this the handiwork you give to God, 
 
 Oris monstrous thing distorted and soul- 
 quenched ? 
 
 F)ow will you ever straighten up this 
 shape; 
 
 Couch it again with immortality; 
 
 Give back the upward looking and the 
 light; 
 
 Rebuild in it the music and the dream; 
 
 jVIake right the immemorial infamies, 
 
 perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes? 
 
O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, 
 
 F>ow will the -future reckon with this ]VIan ? 
 
 F>ow answer his brute question in that 
 hour 
 
 *&hen whirlwinds of rebellion shake the 
 world ? 
 
 how will it be with kingdoms and with 
 kings— 
 
 CCUth those who shaped him to the thing 
 he is— 
 
 {{then this dumb terror shall reply to God, 
 
 Hfter the silence of the centuries? 
 
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 The Man J&itb the Hoe^t 
 
 cAnd Other c PoemsJ- c By Ed<wtn Markham 
 
 A complete volume of Mr. Markham’s 
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 TEN DRAWINGS w** 
 
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