hoe-man

Updated: May 17, 2025

A phrase from Edwin Markham's "The Hoe-Man in the Making" kept ringing through his head. It ran as follows "It is in the glass-factory perhaps, that the child is pushed most hopelessly under the blind hammer of greed," and the boy wondered whether this especial works was one of those which the poet-author had visited.

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U.S. Census