By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day,
Be gentle when the heathen pray
To Buddha at Kamàkura.
he chanted over and over again like a prayer, as if those hushed and holy mountains on which we looked were Buddha, Buddha at Kamàkura. And then—
To him the Way, the Law, Apart
Whom Maya held beneath her heart,
Ananda’s Lord—the Bodhisat.
For whoso will, from Pride released
Contemning neither man nor beast,
May hear the Soul of all the East