For the sweet cakes of old.
May I have a rice-cake?
in the wild swans’ lair.
Man has not long to wait.
Death is but a tool of Fate.
The cup is brimmed in time and then it spills over.
For notes about The Faithful see the Bibliography CA5.
The play was reprinted in 2000 as part of the Classic Books edition of The Collected Works of John Masefield and is offered with limited availability in the US here. Several other Masefield titles are in print both in the UK and the US but none of these concern Japanese subjects.