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William Morris

William Morris was born to a wealthy family in Essex, northeast of London, and attended Marlborough College and Oxford. In London, in 1856, he met Dante Gabriel Rossetti and immediately attached himself to

Drawing Near the Light

by William Morris (1834–96)

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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,

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