"No God find I in all the Buddha's thought-- A ghastly gap of void and nothingness, O Krishna, to the orphaned human heart That aches with longing and with loneliness, A weanling infant left forlorn of God, And, 'O, that I might find Him!' ceaseless cries In yearnings that will not be pacified, Fatherless in a dreadful universe! I would thy Buddha had felt after God, And haply found Him, or been found of Him! I wonder if, not knowing it, he did! Sadly I wonder when of this I think, That he who comes to God must needs believe God is, and a rewarder is of such As diligently seek Him--such alone. But may one seek God unawares? With hope I wonder, when I think again of Him, The Light that lighteth every soul of man That anywhere is born into the world. O Christ, Thou Brightness of the Father's glory, Immanuel, God with us, the Son of Man, The Son of God, God Himself manifest On earth to us, Redeemer, Brother, Lord!" The strain of such ascription bursting forth Unbidden, and unboundedly intense In tone, from the great heart of Paul surcharged With passion of devotion to his Lord And with vicarious travailing desire To save men, wrought in all who heard an awe Of immanent God. But Krishna to the quick Was touched with tenderness toward Paul to hear Paul's tenderness toward Buddha, far removed Although it were from reverence like his own. To Publius there seemed no fitting thing For modulation to the mood from Paul, Save to let Mary now resume the word. She said: "After the raising from the dead Of Lazarus, we disciples of the Lord Ought not to have been astonished or dismayed At anything that in His wisdom He, His wisdom and His power, might either do Or suffer to be done. But we were blind, And it did seem to us so violent, So opposite to all that should have been, When He, that Lord of life and glory, let The soldiers take him prisoner. At first Indeed, when He stood forth and said to them, 'Whom seek ye?' and they, ignorant, said to Him, 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and thereupon He answered, 'I am he,' they, at that word From Him, majestically spoken more Than they could bear to hear and stand upright, Went backward and fell prostrate on the ground. This, as I think, was not so much _against_ Those who thus suffered as _for_ us who saw-- To reassure our faith that naught then done Was done without His sovereign sufferance, who Such things could, then even, and so easily, work.