# In the name of Time

Author: Field, Michael

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72364

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=In+the+name+of+Time+Field&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_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 b...

## Chapters

- [ACT I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-name-of-time-72364/chapters/1/index.md)
- [ACT IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-name-of-time-72364/chapters/4/index.md)
- [ACT III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-name-of-time-72364/chapters/3/index.md)
- [ACT II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-name-of-time-72364/chapters/2/index.md)
- [ACT V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/in-the-name-of-time-72364/chapters/5/index.md)