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.'
"WHEN SPRING COMES BACK TO ENGLAND"
When Spring comes back to England
And crowns her brows with May,
Round the merry moonlit world
She goes the greenwood way:
She throws a rose to Italy,
A fleur-de-lys to France;
But round her regal morris-ring
The seas of England dance.
When Spring comes back to England
And dons her robe of green,
There's many a nation garlanded
But England is the Queen;
She's Queen, she's Queen of all the world
Beneath the laughing sky,
For the nations go a-Maying
When they hear the New Year cry -
"Come over the water to England,
My old love, my new love,
Come over the water to England,
In showers of flowery rain;
Come over the water to England,
April, my true love;
And tell the heart of England
The Spring is here again!"