oint their place,
Not for the transient glories of a king,
Now clothed in scarlet but to-morrow dust,
Can I forget those loving, living souls,
Groping in darkness, vainly asking help."
And then he showed the noble eightfold path
From life's low levels to Nirvana's heights,
While king and people on the master gazed,
Whose face, beaming with pure, unselfish love,
Transfigured seemed; and many noble youth,
And chief Ananda, the Beloved called,
Forsook their gay companions and the round
Of youthful sports, and joined the master's band.
And as he spoke, crores more than mortals saw
Gathered to hear, and King Suddhodana
And sweet Yasodhara entered the path.

[1]I have substantially followed the description of this fearful route
given by Fa Hian, the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, who passed by it from
China to India.

[2]Like the aspen, the leaf of the sacred fig-tree is always
trembling.--"Two Years in Ceylon," Cumming.

[3]This is Asvaghosha's version, but the Sanchi inscriptions make the
Naga or cobra rise up behind Buddha and extend its hood over his head
as a shelter.

[4]Some Buddhists teach that Buddha had conquered all human affections,
and even enter into apologies for a show of affection for his wife, one
of the most elaborate of which Arnold, in the "Light of Asia," puts
into his own mouth; but this is no more like the teachings of Buddha
than the doctrine of infant damnation is like the teachings of Him who
said: "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not;
for of such is the kingdom of God."

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