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• Morris, William
  Atalanta's Race and The Proud King (from the Earthly Paradise)
  Longmans, Green and Co., London, New York, Bombay, and Calcutta, 1912, Decorative Cloth, , , Very Good /No Jacket
  
  

  Longmans' Class-Books of English Literature. Edited with an introduction adn notes for the use of schools and colleges. Handsome orange book with black stamped design. Spine a bit dull. Two poems in rhyme royal. 'Short was the way unto such winged feet, / Quickly she gained upon him till at last / He turned about her eager eyes to meet / And from his hand the third fair apple cast. / She wavered not, but turned and ran so fast / After the prize that should her bliss fulfil, / That in her hand it lay ere it was still.'

  

"WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE"

Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I'll protect it now.
'Twas my forefather's hand
That placed it near his cot;
There, woodman, let it stand,
Thy axe shall harm it not!

That old familiar tree,
Whose glory and renown
Are spread o'er land and sea, -
And wouldst thou hew it down?
Woodman, forbear thy stroke!
Cut not its earth-bound ties;
O, spare that aged oak,
Now towering to the skies!

When but an idle boy
I sought its grateful shade;
In all their gushing joy
Here, too, my sisters played.
My mother kissed me here;
My father pressed my hand -
Forgive this foolish tear,
But let that old oak stand!

My heart-strings round thee cling,
Close as thy bark, old friend!
Here shall the wild-bird sing,
And still thy branches bend.
Old tree! the storm still brave!
And, woodman, leave the spot;
While I've a hand to save,
Thy axe shall harm it not.