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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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-pile aa he built the State,Pouring his splendid strength through every blow.The conscience of him testing every stroke,To make his deed the measure of a man. He held his place-Held the long purpose like a growing tree—Held on through blame and faltered not at praise.And when he fell in whirlwind, he went downAs when a kingly cedar green with boughsGoes down with a great shout upon the nills,And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. The Man With the Hoe, The Sow-er, The Leader of the People, andLincoln are typical examples of thedistinctly great and stately creative verseof Mr. Markham in which the poet leadsthe reader out upon the promontories ofthought and stimulates the imaginationto its profoundest depths. They areindeed spire-like peaks in a range of loftymountains where many summits riseamid valleys carpeted with naturesglory, where sublimity and beauty gohand in hand. *IAncoln and Other Poems. By Edwin M^rlrhiwyNew York: McClure, Phillips & Company. Digitized by Google
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Photo by Mc Mi chad & Ore. New York EDWIN MARKHAM The Arena Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Edwin Markham: The Poet-Prophet of Democracy. 145 As a social philosopher he is no lessclear-visioned than as a poetic dreamer,and in prose no less than in verse he isStriking sturdy blows for a newer, a higherand a finer social order—the order of theGolden Rule—the day of practical fra-ternity for which so many of our truestmen and women are valiantly striving.An example of his recent prose thoughtalong economic lines is found in a con-tribution by him to a recent issue of TheCosmopolitan entitled When I Am Dic-tator. After pointing out the fact towhich statesmen seem to be so perverselyblind: that enforced idleness of any con-siderable portion of the citizens of a stateconstitutes one of the gravest possiblemenaces to national integrity, loweringthe moral ideals, weakening the efficiencyand embittering the life of the individual,he urges the importance of lifting from theman o

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