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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

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In languid voice he spake as one
Who knows the task that must be done,
And how each word from him should fall
And gives no heed to it at all;
But here he stopped a little space,
And once more covered up his face;
But soon began his speech again
In a soft voice, and freed from pain: