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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.'

  

from PROLOGUE: THE WANDERERS

FORGET six countries overhung with smoke,
Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,
Forget the spreading of the hideous town; 
Think rather of the pack-horse on the down,
And dream of London, small, and white, and clean,
The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green;
Think, that below bridge the green lapping waves
Smite some few keels that bear Levantine staves,
Cut from the yew wood on the burnt-up hill,
And pointed jars that Greek hands toiled to fill,
And treasured scanty spice from some far sea,
Florence gold cloth, and Ypres napery,
And cloth of Bruges, and hogsheads of Guienne;
While nigh the thronged wharf Geoffrey Chaucer’s pen
Moves over bills of lading—mid such times
Shall dwell the hollow puppets of my rhymes.