Edwin Markham

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

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

— Edwin Markham

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

— Edwin Markham

There is a destiny that makes us brothers:The soul of man is cast.

— Edwin Markham

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

— Edwin Markham

Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To feel the passion of Eternity?

— Edwin Markham

Down all the stretches of Hell to its last gulf More fraught with menace to the universe.

— Edwin Markham

Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; A protest that is also a prophecy.

— Edwin Markham

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?

— Edwin Markham

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands After the silence of the centuries?

— Edwin Markham

The crest and crowning of all good, And travel downward to the dust of graves.

— Edwin Markham

Come, clear the way, then, clear the way: Make way for Brotherhood — make way for Man.

— Edwin Markham

He drew a circle that shut me out — We drew a circle that took him in.

— Edwin Markham

So I go to the long adventure, lifting Of gods and stars and souls.

— Edwin Markham

There are more lives yet, there are more worlds waiting, And the Holy Will is done.

— Edwin Markham

I will find you there where our low life heightens, In the Stars behind the stars.

— Edwin Markham

It will all come back — the wasted splendor, Touch of the April hour.

— Edwin Markham

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.

— Edwin Markham

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