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    Many Gods
    Many Gods
    Many Gods
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    Many Gods

    By Cale Young Rice

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateAug 1, 2007
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      Many Gods - Cale Young Rice

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Many Gods, by Cale Young Rice

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      Title: Many Gods

      Author: Cale Young Rice

      Release Date: October 10, 2009 [EBook #30225]

      Language: English

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      MANY GODS

      OTHER BOOKS BY CALE YOUNG RICE

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      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

      "And is all well, O Thou Unweariable

      Launcher of worlds upon bewildered space,"

      Rose in me, "All? or did thy hand grow dull

      Building this world that bears a piteous race?

      O was it launched too soon or launched too late?

      Or can it be a derelict that drifts

      Beyond thy ken toward some reef of Fate

      On which Oblivion's sand forever shifts?"

      IV

      The sea grew softer as I questioned—calm

      With mystery that like an answer moved,

      And from infinity there fell a balm,

      The old peace that God is, tho

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