“Real power for good owns good enough to claim
Some courtesy from Christian charity.
If I but fling a stone in yonder pond,
Wherever it may fall, it stirs the whole.
So if I throw out thought for mind or heart,
Through art or through religion, each may move
The whole man thus, and move him for his good.”
“Ah, but,” she breathed, with slight dogmatic stress,
“A simple woman, I would move his heart,
Through love, as Christ too did; not so?”