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WILLIAM MORRIS
backwards, but forwards—does truly come about, Morris will be the first prophet of it. Poet of the childhood of nations, crafts man in the new honesties of art, prophet of a merrier and wiser life, his full-blooded enthusiasm will be remembered when human life has once more assumed flamboyant colours and proved that this painful greenish grey of the æsthetic twilight in which we now live is, in spite of all the pessimists, not of the greyness of death, but the greyness of dawn.
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