A Parody Anthology - Unknown

AFTER WILLIAM MORRIS

(Argument: Showing how a man of England, hearing from certain Easterlings of the glories of their land, set sail to rule it)

AND so unto the End of Graves came he,

Where nigh the staging, ready for the sea,

Oarless and sailless lay the galley's bulk,

Albeit smoke did issue from the hulk

And fell away, across the marshes dun,

Into the visage of the wan-white sun.