in many eyes, sobbings were heard from many quarters.
But there was one man in the hall who hateth nought
Of all which lives, living himself benign
Compassionate, from arrogance exempt
Exempt from love of self, unchangeable
By good or ill, patient, contented, firm
In faith, mastering himself, true to his word who unto friend and foe
Keeping an equal heart, with equal mind
Bear shame and glory; with an equal peace
Takes heat and cold, pleasure and pain; abides
Quit of desires, bears praise or calumny
In passionless restraint, unmoved by each.
A minute passed after the pronouncement of the sentence. The Judge was evidently feeling happy that the whole business was over. He got up, bowed and departed—an instinctive tribute which truth claims from justice. The throne of truth is any day mightier than the chair of justice.
Then followed the last scene of this historic trial—the farewell-friends and followers, one after another, both men and women passed before him. He had a kind word or a cutting
