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The Hollow Land and Other Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
The Hollow Land and Other Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine Author:William Morris General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: Chiswick press Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Fantasy / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or ... more »missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SVEND AND HIS BRETHREN. A KING in the olden time ruled over a mighty nation: aproud man he must have been, any man who was king of that nation: hundreds of lords, each a prince over many people, sat about him in the council chamber, under the dim vault, that was blue like the vault of heaven, and shone with innumerable glistenings of golden stars. North, south, east, and west, spread that land of his, the sea did not stop it; his empire clomb the high mountains, and spread abroad its arms over the valleys of them; all along the seaxline shone cities set with their crowns of towers in the midst of broad bays, each fit, it seemed, to be a harbour for the navies of all the world. Inland the pastures and cornlands lay, chequered much with climbing, overxtumbling grapexvines, under the sun that crumbled their clods,« less