Therefore small marvel that her footsteps be
Like strides of Destiny!
KIYOMITSU: THE ACTOR SEGAWA KIKUNOJO AS A WOMAN SMOKING.
Printed in black and three colours. Size 11½ × 5½.
Signed Torii Kiyomitsu ga.
Plate 9.
Pillar Print of a Man.
Out of spaces hazed with greyness, out of years whose veils are grey,
With the slow majestic footsteps of a lord of far-away,
Comes a form that out of glooming
Rises from some old entombing
To confront once more the day.
And with splendid gesture dwarfing the confusion of our hands,
With his ancient calm rebuking the unrest of vain demands,
He with solemn footsteps slowly
Passes: and his garments holy
Leave the scent of holy lands.
