Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? 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? Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And marked their ways upon the ancient deep? Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf There is no shape more terrible than this - More tongued with censure of the world's blind greed - More filled with signs and portents for the soul - More fraught with menace to the universe. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes. Januar 1899.īowed 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. März 1940 in Brooklyn, New Yorkīeispiele seiner Lyrik The Man with the Hoe (Der Mann mit der Hacke)Įrschienen im "San Francisco Examiner" am 15. Quelle: Sein vollständiger Name lautete: Charles Edwin Anson Markham. "The Man with the Hoe", das als der "Schlachtruf der nächsten tausend Jahre" bezeichnet wurde,Įhrenpräsident der Gesellschaft amerikanischer Dichter, wurde in der "Acacia Lodge" in Coloma (Kalifornien) in den Freimaurerbund aufgenommen.Herausgeber des "Book of Poetry" (eine Anthologie),.Quelle: Internationales Freimaurer-Lexikon von Eugen Lennhoff und Oskar Posner (1932)Īmerikanischer Dichter *1852, der "große Sänger des Evangelium der Bruderliebe",
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