The Wood Beyond the World

by William Morris

THE WOOD BEYOND THE
WORLD. BY WILLIAM MORRIS.

LONDON: LAWRENCE AND BULLEN,
16, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT
GARDEN. MDCCCXCV.

CHISWICK PRESS:—CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.

TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Of Golden Walter and his Father	1
II.	Golden Walter takes Ship to sail the Seas	6
III.	Walter heareth Tidings of the Death of his Father	12
IV.	Storm befalls the Bartholomew, and she is driven off her Course	20
V.	Now they come to a New Land	25
VI.	The Old Man tells Walter of himself. Walter sees a Shard in the Cliff-wall	33
VII.	Walter comes to the Shard in the Rock-wall	42
VIII.	Walter wends the Waste	46
IX.	Walter happeneth on the first of those three Creatures	51
X.	Walter happeneth on another Creature in the Strange Land	57
XI.	Walter happeneth on the Mistress	72
XII.	The Wearing of four Days in the Wood beyond the World	78
XIII.	Now is the Hunt up	89
XIV.	The Hunting of the Hart	99
XV.	The Slaying of the Quarry	107
XVI.	Of the King’s Son and the Maid	113
XVII.	Of the House and the Pleasance in the Wood	121
XVIII.	The Maid gives Walter tryst	128
XIX.	Walter goes to fetch Home the Lion’s Hide	132
XX.	Walter is bidden to another Tryst	141
XXI.	Walter and the Maid flee from the Golden House	148
XXII.	Of the Dwarf and the Pardon	153
XXIII.	Of the peaceful Ending of that wild Day	160
XXIV.	The Maid tells of what had befallen her	165
XXV.	Of the triumphant Summer Array of the Maid	182
XXVI.	They come to the Folk of the Bears	189
XXVII.	Morning amongst the Bears	197
XXVIII.	Of the new God of the Bears	201
XXIX.	Walter strays in the Pass and is sundered from the Maid	210
XXX.	Now they meet again	215
XXXI.	They come upon new Folk	223
XXXII.	Of the new King of the City and Land of Stark-wall	228
XXXIII.	Concerning the Fashion of King-making in Stark-wall	233
XXXIV.	Now cometh the Maid to the King	236
XXXV.	Of the King of Stark—wall and his Queen	239
XXXVI.	Of Walter and the Maid in the Days of the Kingship	245