THE BURNING SPEAR

by John Galsworthy

Being the Experiences of Mr. John Lavender in the Time of War

Recorded by: A. R. P—M [John Galsworthy]

[NOTE: John Galsworthy said of this work: “'The Burning Spear' was revenge of the nerves. It was bad enough to have to bear the dreads and strains and griefs of war.” Several years after its first publication he admitted authorship and it was included in the collected edition of his works. D.W.]

                    “With a heart of furious fancies,                     Whereof I am commander,                     With a burning spear and a horse of air                     In the wilderness I wander;                     With a night of ghosts and shadows                     I summoned am to tourney                     Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end                     For me it is no journey.”                                    TOM O'BEDLAM

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CONTENTS

THE BURNING SPEAR

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THE BURNING SPEAR

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THE HERO

In the year —— there dwelt on Hampstead Heath a small thin gentleman of fifty-eight, gentle disposition, and independent means, whose wits had become somewhat addled from reading the writings and speeches of public men. The castle which, like every Englishman, he inhabited was embedded in lilac bushes and laburnums, and was attached to another castle, embedded, in deference to our national dislike of uniformity, in acacias and laurustinus. Our gentl

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