American poet and lecturer (1852–1940) whose poem 'Lincoln, the Man of the People' was presented at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. Period souvenir typescript of Edwin Markham’s 1898 poem 'The Man with the Hoe,' one page, 6.25 x 13.75, signed at the bottom in black ink, “Edwin Markham, 1932.” The poem, in part: “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. / Who made him dead to rapture and despair, / A thing that grieves not and that never hopes. / 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?” In fine condition, with horizontal folds and toning from prior display.
From the collection of Mark S. Robbins.
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