William Morris, his homes and haunts . rein A many and a many, and divers deeds they win. In the fashioning of stories for the kindred of the earth, A garland interwoven of sorrow and of mirth. To the world a warrior cometh; from the world he passeth away,And no man then may sunder his good from his evil the Gods hath he been tormented and smitten by the foe:He hath seen his maiden perish, he hath seen his speech-friend go:His breath hath conceived a joyance and hath brought it unto birth:But he hath not carried with him his sorrow or his hath lived and his life hath fashioned
William Morris, his homes and haunts . rein A many and a many, and divers deeds they win. In the fashioning of stories for the kindred of the earth, A garland interwoven of sorrow and of mirth. To the world a warrior cometh; from the world he passeth away,And no man then may sunder his good from his evil the Gods hath he been tormented and smitten by the foe:He hath seen his maiden perish, he hath seen his speech-friend go:His breath hath conceived a joyance and hath brought it unto birth:But he hath not carried with him his sorrow or his hath lived and his life hath fashioned the outcome of the deedFor the blossom of the people and the coming kindreds the world is fashioned. . It is a revolt against all the sham civilisation whichMorris saw around him : this pagan barbarism was sweetand wholesome beside the putrefaction of civilisedLondon and Liverpool and Glasgow. And there is thesame frank acceptance of pagan life in the closing wordsof the book. ** Now when all this was done . . the. /^/A// GLASS PAINTERS AT WORK, MERTON ABBEY(After a photo, by permission of Mr. H. C. Marillier) THE DREAMER OF DREAMS 49 Wolfings gathered in wheat harvest and set themselvesto make good all that the Romans had undone; andthey cleansed and mended their great Roof and made itfairer than before. . The Wolfings throve in fieldand fold and they begat children who grew up to bemighty men and deft of hand, and the House grewmore glorious year by year. It was literature of this kind that Morris pouredforth so rapidly during the last eight years of his quick succession came **The Roots of the Mountains,1890; and **The Story of the Glittering Plain, of thesame year; then a gap while he was plunged in theexcitements of printing (of which anon); then TheWood beyond the World, 1894 ; Child Christopher,1895; The Well at the Worlds End, 1896; TheWater of the Wondrous Isles, and The Story of theSundering Flood of the same year. Such were the prose tales of p
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