University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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MELVILLE DOZIER, VICE PRINCIPAL.

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Edith Peckham, Department Editor. 4 California Poem. THE MAN WITH THE HOE. WRITTEN- AFTER SEEIXG MILLET ' S WORLD-FAMOUS PAINTING, NOW IN SAN FRANCISCO. By Edwin Markham. Bowed by the weig-ht of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes. Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox ? Who loosened and let down his brutal jaw ? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow ? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain ? Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land ; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power ; To feel the passion of Eternity ? Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light ? Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf There is no shape more terrible than this— More tongued with censure of the world ' s blind greed- More filled with signs and portents for the soul- More fraught with menance to the universe. What gulfs between him and the seraphim ! Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades ?