THE INDIAN UPON GOD
 
 I PASSED along the water's edge below the humid trees,
 My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my
 knees,
 My spirit rocked in sleep and sighs; and saw the moor-
 fowl pace
 All dripping on a grassy slope, and saw them cease to
 chase
 Each other round in circles, and heard the eldest speak:
 Who holds the world between His bill and made us strong or
 weak
 Is an undying moorfowl, and He lives beyond the sky.
 The rains are from His dripping wing, the moonbeams from
 His eye.
 I passed a little further on and heard a lotus talk:
 Who made the world and ruleth it, He hangeth on a stalk,
 For I am in His image made, and all this tinkling tide
 Is but a sliding drop of rain between His petals wide.
 A little way within the gloom a roebuck raised his eyes
 Brimful of starlight, and he said:  The Stamper of the
 Skies,
 He is a gentle roebuck; for how else, I pray, could He
 Conceive a thing so sad and soft, a gentle thing like me?
 I passed a little further on and heard a peacock say:
 Who made the grass and made the worms and made my feathers
 gay,
 He is a monstrous peacock, and He waveth all the night
 His languid tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light.