The Land of Prester John
Ethiopia's Christianity
Outrage over the invasion of Ethiopia was not reserved for the elite of British society, neither by citizens in the big cities, nor by politicians.
Evidence no.1: Welsh Tinplate Trade Workers
Evidence no.2: Honiton, Devonshire
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Evidence no.3: a poem for "St. George, Patron of Abyssinia"
Published in New Times & Ethiopia News, May 1937, by M. Snow
I met the solider of the crimson cross,
And he was flying, blinded in despair,
From Africa, where once the beast had loss,
And he had triumph; but he stays not there.
“a trodden helm”. He said, “a broken sword
Are mine; there was a country, all my own;
But she is lying as a thing abhorred,
Unburied, unbewailed by flower or stone”.
What though beyond the seas a nation stand
Called also by my name, untouched and bright?
What do i care for any other land
But her, but her, whose setting is my night?
Let Ethiopia sine in blameless pride;
But England is my own, and she has died.
Note that St. George is the patron saint of both England and Ethiopia!
Evidence no.3: a poem for "St. George, Patron of Abyssinia"
Published in New Times & Ethiopia News, May 1937, by M. Snow
I met the solider of the crimson cross,
And he was flying, blinded in despair,
From Africa, where once the beast had loss,
And he had triumph; but he stays not there.
“a trodden helm”. He said, “a broken sword
Are mine; there was a country, all my own;
But she is lying as a thing abhorred,
Unburied, unbewailed by flower or stone”.
What though beyond the seas a nation stand
Called also by my name, untouched and bright?
What do i care for any other land
But her, but her, whose setting is my night?
Let Ethiopia sine in blameless pride;
But England is my own, and she has died.
Note that St. George is the patron saint of both England and Ethiopia!