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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Morris. (1834–1896) (continued)

7753

Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,
A tale of folly and of wasted life,
Hope against hope, the bitter dregs of strife,
Ending, where all things end, in death at last.

The Earthly Paradise. Prologue.

7754

    Slayer of the Winter, art thou here again?
  O welcome, thou that bring’st the Summer nigh!
The bitter wind makes not thy victory vain,
  Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.

The Earthly Paradise. March.

7755

Rejoice, lest pleasureless ye die.
Within a little time must ye go by.
Stretch forth your open hands, and while ye live
Take all the gifts that Death and Life may give!

The Earthly Paradise. March.

7756

Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;
In some wise may come ending to my pain;
It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!
Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!

The Earthly Paradise. The Death of Paris.

7757

Earth, left silent by the wind of night,
Seems shrunken ’neath the gray unmeasured height.

The Earthly Paradise. December.

7758

Late February days; and now, at last,
Might you have thought that Winter’s woe was past;
So fair the sky was and so soft the air.

The Earthly Paradise. February.

7759

A world made to be lost,—
A bitter life ’twixt pain and nothing tost.

The Earthly Paradise. The Hill of Venus.

7760

To happy folk
All heaviest words no more of meaning bear
Than far-off bells saddening the Summer air.

The Earthly Paradise. The Hill of Venus.

7761

But boundless risk must pay for boundless gain. 1

The Earthly Paradise. The Wanderers.

Note 1.
Naught venture, naught have. Thomas Tusser. (See Heywood, page 15). [back]

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