There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Markham’s lines express a moral vision of human interdependence: people are bound together by forces larger than individual choice (“a destiny”), so no life is lived in isolation. The second sentence frames ethics in terms of reciprocity and consequence—what we give, do, or “send” into others’ lives returns to shape our own character and circumstances. Read this way, the quote blends social solidarity (a brotherhood that makes private actions public in effect) with a quasi-karma principle of return. It aligns with Markham’s broader reputation as a socially engaged poet concerned with justice, sympathy, and the shared conditions of labor and community.