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Show MARKtt AM'S LATEST POEM. Those lovers of - poetry who complain that the modern magazines only use verse for "fillers" and tailpieces, are most overwhelmingly refuted by a three-page roem called "The Homing Heart," by Edwin Markham in the March number of the Cosmopolitan. Last August there appeared ap-peared In the same magazine Mr. Mark-ram's Mark-ram's first love poem. It aroused more discussion in the press than any poem of recent years save the author's own "Man with the Hoe." This new poem, "The Homing Heart." Is a sequel to the earlier love poem, "Vlrgllia." In "Vlrgllia" the poet sang of an ideal love that he might rave known in some previous existence. In the new lyric he sings, with prophetio voice, of that ideal as he shall know It in future llvs. In lyric fullness and ecstasy the author seems even to have surpassed himself. We quote a few stanzas from the poem: There are more lives yet, there are more . worlds waiting. For th-.i way climbs up to the eldest sun, ; Where the white ones go to their mystic mating, And the Holy Will is done, , "I will find you there where our low life heightens Where the door of the Wonder again unbars. Where the old love lures and the old fire whitens. In the Stars behind the stars. "Perhaps we will meet where the boughs for rafters Shelter a slift by an ocean-stream, . As we met long ago In the light sea-laughters. sea-laughters. When over me went the dream. "Perhaps we will meet In some field of faery, .... Twined round by the sea, and the , scented vales, , To stray moon-charmed In a high-hung, airy .- , Dream-wood of nlghtIngaes. . . I |