What are nasty? Bites of fleas.
What are fast? Tides and times.
What are slow? Nursery Rhymes.
From The Light Green. Cambridge, W. Metcalf and Sons, 1872.
WILLIAM MORRIS.
The author of “The Earthly Paradise” is much more than a mere poet, he is a thorough man of business, who works as an art designer, and lectures on the social improvement of the people. His poetry was thus amusingly criticised in London, 1877:—
Rondel.
Behold the works of W. Morris,
Epics, and here and there wall-papery,