"The ruin has no remedy but one. The Lord Christ by a woman came to us, And opened a new fountain for our race, Pure, more than pure, for purifying too. Life drawn from Him, life fed from Him, life lived In Him and for Him, that alone is pure, And endless because boundless; blesséd; joy, And peace, and power, and triumph evermore. His life may all through faith in Him partake, Faith which unites us vitally to Him. Christ is the founder of a race redeemed, Redeemed from sin, and death, and every ill. In Him believing, we rejoice with joy Unspeakable and full of glory, now Already though before the time in hope. Belief in misery makes miserable. We do not need to be defeated so; Thanks be to God Most High who giveth us The victory through Jesus Christ our Lord! "Would that thy Buddha groping in his dark, Nobly as seems, with that maimed nobleness Which only is left possible by sin Without a Savior known, ah, would that he Had known a Savior such as Christ the Lord! "Yet let us hear, O Publius, if so please Thee and so please Krishna likewise, the rest Concerning Buddha's death. We shall at least, Sorrowing with wholesome sorrow for his case, Learn from such high example how far short The highest human and the best, unhelped, Must fall of helping helpless humankind." The tone of just authority in Paul, Felt to be not assertion of himself But fealty to his Lord effacing self, Was mixed so with a suasive gentleness In manner and even a certain deference To other as that other's right from him, All without harm or loss allowed to truth, That Krishna was both charmed and overawed While discomposed not, and he thus went on: "Ânanda was concerned to know what dues Of honor should be paid to the remains Of the Tathâgata when he was gone. But Buddha said: 'Ye must not wrong yourselves To honor the Tathâgata's remains; Others will honor these. Be zealous ye, I pray you, on your own behalf. Devote Yourselves to your own profit. Earnest be And eager and intent for your own good.' Yet Buddha taught that the Tathâgata Was to be honored after his decease By rites of reverence to his remains Like those accorded to a king of kings,