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Drawing Near The Light.

By William Morris

Topics: classic

Lo, when we wade the tangled wood,     In haste and hurry to be there,     Nought seem its leaves and blossoms good,     For all that they be fashioned fair.     But looking up, at last we see     The glimmer of the open light,     From o'er the place where we would be:     Then grow the very brambles bright.     So now, amidst our day of strife,     With many a matter glad we play,     When once we see the light of life     Gleam through the tangle of to-day.

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About William Morris

William Morris (1834–1896) was an English poet, artist, and socialist reformer associated with the Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts movement. His epic poems "The Earthly Paradise" and "Sigurd the Volsung" draw on medieval legend and Norse mythology.

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