William Morris Archive

Song from "Gertha's Lovers"

Pub. CW, I, 179, 180. Appeared in OCM, July, 1856, 405.


OCM, July, 405.

   "The King rode out in the morning early,
    Went riding to hunting over the grass;
Ere the dew fell again that was then bright and pearly,
    O me!—what a sorrow had come to pass."