Excerpt from King Arthur, Vol. 2 of 2 Arthur and the Lady of the Lake - They land on the Meteor Isle - which then sinks to the Halls below - Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem - He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It profi'ers him in lieu of the Sword - He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone - He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings - The Statue crowned with thornsmthe Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword - The Choice of the Three Arches - He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse - The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question if his death shall be in vain - The Vision of times to be - Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry - The Tudors - Henry VII. - the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom Henry VIII. And the Revolu tion of Thought - Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry - The Union of Gym rian and Saxon, under the sway of Crowned Liberty' - Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the rock-the Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him - Arthur called upon to sacri fice the Dove - His reply - The gllmpse of Heaven - The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores. 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.