MANY GODS

OTHER BOOKS BY CALE YOUNG RICE

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Charles di Tocca
David

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