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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

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“Full sore the Elf lamented, but he came before the God,

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And the twain went into the rock-house and on fine gold they trod,
And the walls shone bright, and brighter than the sun of the upper air.
How great was that treasure of treasures: and the Helm of Dread was there;
The world but in dreams had seen it; and there was the hauberk of gold;
None other is in the heavens, nor has earth of its fellow told.