Transcribed from the 1915 Longmans, Green and Company edition by David Price, email [email protected]

THE PILGRIMS OF HOPE
AND
CHANTS FOR SOCIALISTS

BY
WILLIAM MORRIS

LONGMANS, GREEN & COMPANY
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS
1915

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FORWARD

“The Pilgrims of Hope” appeared in The Commonweal between March 1885 and July 1886, its title being decided on with the publication of the second part.  Sections I, IV, and VIII were included in Poems by the Way after the author abandoned his intention of revising it as a whole.  “To be concluded” stands at the bottom of the last instalment.

“Chants for Socialists,” consisting of songs and poems written for various occasions and collected into a penny pamphlet published by the Socialist League in 1885, is here printed entire (with the exception of “The Message of the March Wind,” pp. 3–6), although “The Day is Coming,” “The Voice of Toil,” and “All for the Cause,” were included in Poems by the Way.  “A Death Song,” which also appears there, was written for the funeral of Alfred Linnell, who died from injuries received at a Demonstration in Trafalgar Square on November 20, 1887.  It first appeared in pamphlet form, with a musical setting by Malcolm Lawson.

“May Day” [1892] and “May Day, 1894,” appeared in Justice.

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