A FANTASY
BY
ROGER POCOCK
LONDON
CHAPMAN & HALL, LTD.
1910
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
TALES OF WESTERN LIFE
THE RULES OF THE GAME
THE ARCTIC NIGHT, Chapman & Hall
THE BLACKGUARD, Chapman & Hall
ROTTENNESS
A FRONTIERSMAN (AUTOBIOGRAPHY), Gay & Hancock
CURLY, Gay & Hancock
SWORD AND DRAGON, Hodder & Stoughton
THE FRONTIERSMAN'S POCKET BOOK (EDITED), John Murray.
CONTENTS
Prologue
I. Chancellor of the Empire
II. The Master of Lyonesse
III. Our Lady the Queen
IV. The Coronation
V. The Gathering Storm
VI. The Penance Chamber
VII. The Taming of Lyonesse
VIII. The Mother of Parliaments
IX. The Royal Prerogative
X. The Dawn of the Terror
XI. The World-Storm
XII. The Third Day
XIII. The Queen's Messenger
XIV. The Story of the Ships
XV. Cast Out of Heaven
XVI. The Queen's Days
XVII. Her Majesty in Council
XVIII. The Queen's Madness
XIX. The Tale of the Dun Horse
XX. Victory
XXI. The Queen's Retreat
XXII. The Last Battle
XXIII. Prisoner of Love
Epilogue
LONDON,
December 31st, 2000.
This is the story of the World-Storm. Leaders inevery field of thought have described the eventsof the year 1980, but we who have come aged andshaken out of that chaos, know well that the halfwas not told.
The World-Storm was a human affair, and humanevents are ever based on love. For the love ofwoman a man gives all the labour of his life, or in theloss or lack of love will cast his life away. For thelove of women men have built cities, or burned them,won thrones or lost them, have staked things presentand the things to come. This is the story, then, of aman's love for a woman. And if the life of a man isa love tale, so is the life of a nation, which ends whenthe people cease to love their country. And so isthe life of mankind, which will end when the love ofGod dies out from the human heart. Life is a plantwhich has its roots in love.
Reading over many histories of the World-Storm,by divines, by students, and admirals of the air, thewhole of which have failed to reach down to thetr