The Nine Points of Perfection—rarest chance—

Within some saintly teacher whom the fleet

Years, in their blind implacable advance,

O'ertake before fit teaching born of these

Have magnified his scholars' countenance,—

If haply folk compassionating please

To render up—according to his store,

Each one—a portion of the life he sees

Hardly worth saving when 't is set before

Earth's benefit should the Saint, Hakkadosh,