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    Many Gods
    Many Gods
    Many Gods
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    Many Gods

    By Cale Young Rice

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    This is a collection of poems penned by Cale Young Rice, best-remembered today for his opera, Yolanda of Cyprus. Featured titles to be found within the pages of this book include 'All's Well', 'Meredith', 'Immortal Foes', 'The Christian in Exile', and 'Navis Ignota'.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 24, 2019
    ISBN4064066131074
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      Many Gods - Cale Young Rice

      Cale Young Rice

      Many Gods

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066131074

      Table of Contents

      ALL'S WELL

      THE PROSELYTE RECANTS

      (In Japan)

      LOVE IN JAPAN

      MAPLE LEAVES ON MIYAJIMA

      TYPHOON

      (At Hong-kong)

      PENANG

      WHEN THE WIND IS LOW

      (To A. H. R.)

      THE PAGODA SLAVE

      THE SHIPS OF THE SEA

      KINCHINJUNGA

      (Which is the next highest of mountains)

      THE BARREN WOMAN

      (Benares)

      BY THE TAJ MAHAL

      LOVE'S CYNIC

      IN A TROPICAL GARDEN

      (Peradeniya, Ceylon)

      THE WIND'S WORD

      THE SHRINE OF SHRINES

      FROM A FELUCCA

      THE EGYPTIAN WAKES

      THE IMAM'S PARABLE

      SONGS OF A SEA-FARER

      A SONG OF THE SECTS

      (In a Jerusalem tavern)

      THE CITY

      VIA AMOROSA

      (To A. H. R.)

      DUSK AT HIROSHIMA

      THE WANDERER

      IN A SHINTO TEMPLE GARDEN

      FAR FUJIYAMA

      ON MIYAJIMA MOUNTAIN

      (To A. H. R.)

      OLD AGE

      ON THE YANG-TSE-KIANG

      THE SEA-ARMIES

      THE CHRISTIAN IN EXILE

      (Mandalay)

      THE PARSEE WOMAN

      (At Bombay)

      SHAH JEHAN TO MUMTAZ MAHAL

      PRINCESS JEHANARA

      A SINGHALESE LOVE LAMENT

      ON THE ARABIAN GULF

      THE RAMESSID

      IMMORTAL FOES

      THE CONSCRIPT

      NAVIS IGNOTA

      THE CROSS OF THE SEPULCHRE

      THE NUN

      ALPINE CHANT

      THE MAN OF MIGHT

      IN TIME OF AWE

      SUNRISE IN UTAH

      CONSOLATION

      WAVES

      VIS ULTIMA

      MEREDITH

      THE END

      ALL'S WELL

      Table of Contents

      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 all unproved.

      The old

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