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 More Quotes by Edwin Markham More Quotes From Edwin Markham Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. Edwin Markham hoe age world The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time. Edwin Markham generations silence giving In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man. Edwin Markham cities men firsts The thing that is incredible is life itself. Edwin Markham green-earth incredibles 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. Edwin Markham security individual liberty Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know. Edwin Markham truth law love Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. Edwin Markham fate ignorance soul By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two Edwin Markham slave rights two That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man. Edwin Markham he-man doe men Lincoln, the Man of the People Edwin Markham he-man men people Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart. Edwin Markham white sky heart Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away. Edwin Markham fighting broken soldier Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. Edwin Markham poetic clever men I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine. Edwin Markham shrines fear school At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm. Edwin Markham cyclones sky heart The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all. Edwin Markham land perfect running No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left. Edwin Markham forever hands fall I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose. Edwin Markham loneliness winning men Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true! Edwin Markham There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own. Edwin Markham
