Tissa
Who has contentment in the world?
Who is not agitated?
Who has experienced both extremes,
but wise, in the middle does not stick?
Who do you say’s a person great?
Who, seamstress-craving’s gone beyond?

Buddha
A pure life leading ’mid pleasures of sense,
ever mindful and craving-free,
a bhikkhu cool, after reflection deep,
agitation’s none in such a one.

Who has experienced both extremes,
who wise, in the middle does not stick,
he, I say, is a person great,
who the seamstress-craving’s gone beyond.