Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe (1898)
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Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?
— Edwin Markham on Pleiades
What It Means
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About Edwin Markham
Charles Edwin Anson Markham (23 April 1852 – 7 March 1940) was an American poet, most famous for his poem, The Man With the Hoe.
About Edwin Markham
Charles Edwin Anson Markham (23 April 1852 – 7 March 1940) was an American poet, most famous for his poem, The Man With the Hoe.
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