The Man with the Hoe TO EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN FIRST TO HAIL AND CAUTION ME The Man with the Hoe AND OTHER POEMS _By_ EDWIN MARKHAM [Illustration: colophon] NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE COMPANY 1899 Prefatory Note Many of these poems have appeared in _Scribner’s_, _The Century_, _The Atlantic_, and the San Francisco _Examiner_, and my thanks are due them for permission to republish. EDWIN MARKHAM. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. The Contents The Man with the Hoe 15 A Look into the Gulf 19 Brotherhood 21 Song of the Followers of Pan 22 Little Brothers of the Ground 23 Wail of the Wandering Dead 25 A Prayer 28 The Poet 30 The Whirlwind Road 32 The Desire of Nations 33 The Elf Child 39 The Goblin Laugh 40 Poetry 41 A Meeting 42 Infinite Depths 43 A Leaf from the Devil’s Jest-Book 44 The Paymaster 46 The Last Furrow 47 In the Storm 49 After Reading Shakspere 50 The Hidden Valley 52 The Poets 53 Love’s Vigil 54 Two at a Fireside 56 The Butterfly 57 To William Watson 58 Keats A-Dying 59 Man 60 The Cricket 61