MANY GODS OTHER BOOKS BY CALE YOUNG RICE Nirvana Days Yolanda of Cyprus Plays and Lyrics A Night in Avignon Charles di Tocca David MANY GODS BY CALE YOUNG RICE NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY MCMX ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY PUBLISHED, FEBRUARY, 1910 TO FINIS KING FARR AN OLD AND DEAR COMRADE CONTENTS PAGE "ALL'S WELL" 3 THE PROSELYTE RECANTS 6 LOVE IN JAPAN 10 MAPLE LEAVES ON MIYAJIMA 13 TYPHOON 15 PENANG 17 WHEN THE WIND IS LOW 20 THE PAGODA SLAVE 22 THE SHIPS OF THE SEA 25 KINCHINJUNGA 26 THE BARREN WOMAN 29 BY THE TAJ MAHAL 32 LOVE'S CYNIC 35 IN A TROPICAL GARDEN 42 THE WIND'S WORD 46 THE SHRINE OF SHRINES 47 FROM A FELUCCA 48 THE EGYPTIAN WAKES 49 THE IMAM'S PARABLE 50 SONGS OF A SEA-FARER 52 A SONG OF THE SECTS 54 THE CITY 57 VIA AMOROSA 58 DUSK AT HIROSHIMA 60 THE WANDERER 61 IN A SHINTO TEMPLE GARDEN 64 FAR FUJIYAMA 65 ON MIYAJIMA MOUNTAIN 66 OLD AGE 68 ON THE YANG-TSE-KIANG 69 THE SEA-ARMIES 71 THE CHRISTIAN IN EXILE 73 THE PARSEE WOMAN 75 SHAH JEHAN TO MUMTAZ MAHAL 77 PRINCESS JEHANARA 79 A CINGHALESE LOVE LAMENT 80 ON THE ARABIAN GULF 83 THE RAMESSID 84 IMMORTAL FOES 85 THE CONSCRIPT 87 NAVIS IGNOTA 89 THE CROSS OF THE SEPULCHRE 91 THE NUN 92 ALPINE CHANT 94 THE MAN OF MIGHT 96 IN TIME OF AWE 97 SUNRISE IN UTAH 99 CONSOLATION 100 WAVES 102 VIS ULTIMA 104 MEREDITH 106 MANY GODS "ALL'S WELL" I The illimitable leaping of the sea, The mouthing of his madness to the moon, The seething of his endless sorcery, His prophecy no power can attune, Swept over me as, on the sounding prow Of a great ship that steered into the stars, I stood and felt the awe upon my brow Of death and destiny and all that mars. II The wind that blew from Cassiopeia cast Wanly upon my ear a rune that rung; The sailor in his eyrie on the mast Sang an "All's well," that to the spirit clung Like a lost voice from some aërial realm Where ships sail on forever to no shore, Where Time gives Immortality the helm, And fades like a far phantom from life's door. III