The twenty-fifth block in the series (numbers corresponding to a list copied from one written by William Morris). Printed with the thirty-fourth block on a single sheet: P.12171-R(b). The blocks were cut c.1868-8, but these proofs were probably printed in the 1880s. Sheet has two "Primrose" watermarks. Around fifty of the designs for Morris's poems, "The Earthly Paradise", were cut as woodblocks by William Morris, George Campfield, Elizabeth Burden and George Wardle, though Morris later abandoned the project. According to a list copied from one made by William Morris, which lists the titles and block cutter's names, the set owned by the Fitzwilliam is incomplete. J.R. Holliday also owned a bound volume containing 86 studies for illustrations to 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' and a collection of tracings of the designs, which he bequeathed to Birmingham Art Gallery.
""Farewell! though I, a God, can never know How thou canst lose thy pain, yet time will go..." Therewith he caught his shafts up and his bow, And striding through the chambers did he go, Light all around him; and she wailing sore, Still followed after; but he turned no more." William Morris - The Earthly Paradise Quoted by G Uerscheln & M Kalusok p 202