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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

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Then back the King turned; silent for awhile
He sat beneath his captain's curious smile,

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Thinking o'er all the years gone by in vain.
At last he said:
“Yea, certes, I were fain
If I my life and honour so might save
That he not half alone, but all should have.”