[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]
| THE BAYONETS | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| OVER THE JAWS OF THE CROWD | [16] |
| THE OLD DANCE OF CHARLATANS AND BEASTS | [22] |
| THE VAMPIRE | [56] |
Reproduced from etchings by Goya
[PRELUDE]
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.