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The Earthly Paradise (1868–70) is a a huge collection of poems by William Morris loosely bound together in what he called a leather strapbound book. The theme was of a group of medieval wanderers who set out to search for a land of everlasting life; after much disillusion, they discover a surviving colony of Greeks with whom they exchange stories. The collection brought him almost immediate fame and popularity (all of his books thereafter were published as "by the author of The Earthly Paradise"). The last-written stories in the collection are retellings of Icelandic sagas.

Most like a mighty king was he, And crowned and sceptred royally; As a white flame his visage shone, Sharp, clear-cut as a face of stone; But flickering flame, not flesh, it was; And over it such looks did pass Of wild desire, and pain, and fear, As in his people’s faces were, But tenfold fiercer: furthermore, A wondrous steed the master bore, Unnameable of kind or make, Not horse, nor hippogriff, nor drake. Like and unlike to all of these, And flickering like the semblances Of an ill dream . . .



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