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Japan has gods. They know their place. Their place
Lies set in leaves and flowers, in anger’s sea.
These gods all know one law of Stoic face
And steel, as rigid as those steels, those three
Combined to make the swords of Samurai.
This rule is that the gods, all gods, obey
The law of their own nature. In the eye
Of storm or height of autumn moon, the sway
