Mr Morris has also translated the Æneid of Virgil, and several works from the Icelandic. 13. +Morris’s Style.+-- Clearness, strength, music, picturesqueness, and easy flow, are the chief characteristics of Morris’s style. Of the month of April he says:-- “O fair midspring, besung so oft and oft, How can I praise thy loveliness enow? Thy sun that burns not, and thy breezes soft That o’er the blossoms of the orchard blow, The thousand things that ’neath the young leaves grow The hopes and chances of the growing year, Winter forgotten long, and summer near.” His pictorial power-- the power of bringing a person or a scene fully and adequately before one’s eyes by the aid of words alone-- is as great as that of Chaucer. The following is his picture of Edward III. in middle age:-- “Broad-browed he was, hook-nosed, with wide grey eyes No longer eager for the coming prize, But keen and steadfast: many an ageing line, Half-hidden by his sweeping beard and fine, Ploughed his thin cheeks; his hair was more than grey, And like to one he seemed whose better day Is over to himself, though foolish fame Shouts louder year by year his empty name. Unarmed he was, nor clad upon that morn Much like a king: an ivory hunting-horn Was slung about him, rich with gems and gold, And a great white ger-falcon did he hold Upon his fist; before his feet there sat A scrivener making notes of this and that As the King bade him, and behind his chair His captains stood in armour rich and fair.” Morris’s stores of language are as rich as Spenser’s; and he has much the same copious and musical flow of poetic words and phrases.