Buddha as "lord" and Buddha as "choosing" his followers

The following section in the Modernist poem The Waste Land is often linked to Buddhism, in the academic literature. > Burning burning burning burning / O Lord Thou pluckest me out / O Lord > Thou pluckest // burning It ends section three, *The Fire Sermon *. I wanted to ask 1. How common is the term "lord" for Buddha? 2. Would the followers of any of the Buddhist traditions ask the Buddha, who gave the fire sermon, to choose them, or pluck them out? I'm just a little skeptical that it is about the Buddha, despite the title to that section.