Introductory material
Reading edition
To
EDWIN MARKHAM
and
ANNA CATHERINE MARKHAM
who live their poetry.
“That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed; Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; “That not one worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel’d in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another’s gain.”
—Tennyson.