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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

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[“Yea, I have heard the story, but scarce therein might I trow]

[The carline.]
“Yea, I have heard the story, but scarce therein might I trow
That thou with all thy beauty wert born 'neath the oaken bough,
And hast crawled a naked baby o'er the rain-drenched autumn-grass;
Wilt thou tell the wandering woman what wise it cometh to pass
That thou art the Mid-mark's Hall-Sun, and the sign of the Wolfings' gain?
Thou shalt pleasure me much by the telling, and thereof shalt thou be fain.”