To
Catherine Markham
THE TOUCH OF WHOSE FINE
SPIRIT IS ON MANY OF
THESE PAGES
Note
Many of the poems in this volume now appear in print for the first time. The one on Lincoln was read at the Lincoln Birthday Dinner given in 1900 by the Republican Club of New York City. The poem “The New Century” was read at the Manhattan Labor Dinner given January first, 1901.
Edwin Markham.