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THE LIFE OF WILLIAM MORRIS
[1870

allows a poet to write fearlessly what, being a poet, he must write in any case. Sorge nie dass ich verrathe! so true still are Heine's bitter words: sorge nie! diese Welt glaubt nicht an Flammen, und sie nimmt's für Poesie.