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    Rada: A Belgian Christmas Eve
    Rada: A Belgian Christmas Eve
    Rada: A Belgian Christmas Eve
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    Rada: A Belgian Christmas Eve

    By Alfred Noyes

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateMay 19, 2021
    ISBN4064066126919

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      Rada - Alfred Noyes

      Alfred Noyes

      Rada: A Belgian Christmas Eve

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066126919

      Table of Contents

      RADA

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR

      PRELUDE

      CHARACTERS

      INTERCESSION

      RADA

      Table of Contents

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR

      Table of Contents

      TALES OF THE MERMAID TAVERN

      DRAKE

      THE FOREST OF WILD THYME

      FORTY SINGING SEAMEN

      THE ENCHANTED ISLAND

      THE WINE PRESS

      THE BAYONETS

      RADA

      A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE

      BY

      ALFRED NOYES

      WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS AFTER GOYA

      METHUEN & CO. LTD.

      36 ESSEX STREET W.C.

      LONDON

      First Published in 1915

      DEDICATION

      Table of Contents

      Thou whose deep ways are in the sea,

      Whose footsteps are not known,

      To-night a world that turned from Thee

      Is waiting—at Thy Throne.

      The towering Babels that we raised

      Where scoffing sophists brawl,

      The little Antichrists we praised—

      The night is on them all.

      The fool hath said ... The fool hath said ...

      And we, who deemed him wise,

      We, who believed that Thou wast dead,

      How should we seek Thine eyes?

      How should we seek to Thee for power,

      Who scorned Thee yesterday?

      How should we kneel in this dread hour?

      Lord, teach us how to pray.

      Grant us the single heart once more

      That mocks no sacred thing,

      The Sword of Truth our fathers wore

      When Thou wast Lord and King.

      Let darkness unto darkness tell

      Our deep unspoken prayer;

      For, while our souls in darkness dwell,

      We know that Thou art there.

      PRELUDE

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      Under which banner? It was night

      Beyond all nights that ever were.

      The Cross was broken. Blood-stained Might

      Moved like a tiger from its lair,

      And all that heaven had died to quell

      Awoke, and mingled earth with hell.

      For Europe, if it held a creed,

      Held it thro’ custom, not thro’ faith.

      Chaos returned in dream and deed,

      Right was a legend—Love, a wraith;

      And That from which the world began

      Was less than even the best in man.

      God in the image of

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