If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming Can touch life's height to a finer fire: Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming Were made by the heart's desire?One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason, One lightning over the chasm runs — That to turn from love is the world's one treason That darkens all the suns.

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Edwin Markham was American poet. Edwin Markham was an American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon. Read more on Wikipedia →

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