Front matter
Reading edition
Transcribed from the 1896 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE ROOTS OF THE MOUNTAINS WHEREIN IS TOLD SOMEWHAT OF THE LIVES OF THE MEN OF BURG- DALE THEIR FRIENDS THEIR NEIGHBOURS THEIR FOEMEN AND THEIR FELLOWS IN ARMS
BY WILLIAM MORRIS
Whiles carried o’er the iron road, We hurry by some fair abode; The garden bright amidst the hay, The yellow wain upon the way, The dining men, the wind that sweeps Light locks from off the sun-sweet heaps— The gable grey, the hoary roof, Here now—and now so far aloof. How sorely then we long to stay And midst its sweetness wear the day, And ’neath its changing shadows sit, And feel ourselves a part of it. Such rest, such stay, I strove to win With these same leaves that lie herein.
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, AND BOMBAY MDCCCXCVI
First Edition printed November, 1889.
250 copies were printed on Large Paper.
Second Edition, February, 1893.