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.