The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems (Markham, Pyle, 1900)/Music

by Edwin Markham

For works with similar titles, see Music.

 

Music

It is the last appeal to man—
Voice crying since the world began;
The cry of the Ideal—cry
To aspirations that would die.
The last appeal! in it is heard
The pathos of the final word.

Voice tender and heroical—
Imperious voice that knoweth well
To wreck the reasonings of years,
To strengthen rebel hearts with tears.