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 BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA

"And there is a Japanese idol at Kamakura"

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.

For though he neither burns nor sees,

Nor hears ye thank your Deities,

Ye have not sinned with such as these,

His children at Kamakura;

Yet spare us still the Western joke

When joss-sticks turn to scented smoke

The little sins of little folk

That worship at Kamakura—

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