In the Name of Time

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Excerpt from In the Name of Time: A Tragedy Scene: Paris. A Hall in the Royal Palace. Carloman is pacing backward and forward: he pauses by a crucifix set up at the further end of the hall. Carloman. Thou sayest truly that I am - a King He said Who laid His life down on the Cross: So will I be, a King. I will possess The great reality. I war and govern, I can strike hard as Charles the Hammerer, Men say I have my father's qualities, And in the brief months of my sovereignty The infidel has recognised my blood: But this is nothing! Phantom-Emperors Have made the throne phantasmal. I have felt In Zacharias, the great Pope, a force That spreads like spring across the world. No more Will I be petty marshal to a crew That hack and murder, while the royal faces Of wandering martyrs scintillate and thrill. There is a glorious Betterness at work Amid the highways and the solitudes, I would be with it - in obscurity, No matter! - with the river as it shapes Its cisterns in the hills or where the wind First draws its silver volumes to a voice: Behind, at the beginning, from within: A cry, a pang - what shall respond to it, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.