BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA "And there is a Japanese idol at Kamakura." OH ye who tread the Narrow Way To him the Way, the Law, Apart, 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; BUDDHA 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 The grey-robed, gay-sashed butterflies That flit beneath the Master's eyesHe is beyond the Mysteries But loves them at Kamakura. And whoso will, from Pride released, Yea, every tale Ananda heard, Till drowsy eyelids seem to see BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA And down the loaded air there comes Yet Brahmans rule Benares still, A tourist-show, a legend told, So much, and scarce so much, ye hold But when the morning prayer is prayed, No nearer than Kamakura? THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN TAKE up the White Man's burden— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Take up the White Man's burden In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain, To seek another's profit, And work another's gain. Copyright, 1899, by Rudyard Kipling. THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN Take up the White Man's burden- Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease. And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought, Watch Sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hope to naught. Take up the White Man's burden- The roads ye shall not tread, Take up the White Man's burden- The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:"Why brought ye us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night?" |