Page:Rudyard Kipling's verse - Inclusive Edition 1885-1918.djvu/123

Rh For being bound to Baal,

Whose sacrifice is vain,

Their rest is scant with Baal,

They glare and pant for Baal,

They mouth and rant for Baal,

For Baal in their pain!

But we will go to Zion,

By choice and not through dread,

With these our present comrades

And those our present dead;

And, being free of Zion

In both her fellowships,

Sit down and sup in Zion—

Stand up and drink in Zion

Whatever cup in Zion

Is offered to our lips!

BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA

1892

YE who tread the Narrow Way

By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day,

Be gentle when "the heathen" pray

To Buddha at Kamakura!

To him the Way, the Law, apart,

Whom Maya held beneath her heart,

Ananda's Lord, the Bodhisat,

The Buddha of Kamakura.