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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke

William Morris (1834–1896)

Extracts from The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine: The Hollow Land

CHRIST keep the Hollow Land

All the summer-tide;

Still we cannot understand

Where the waters glide;

Only dimly seeing them

Coldly slipping through

Many green-lipp’d cavern mouths,

Where the hills are blue.