The People's Response To Heroism.
Our hearts are set on pleasure and on gain. Fine clothes, fair houses, more and daintier bread; We have no strivings, and no hunger-pain For spiritual food; our souls are dead. So judged I till the day when news was rife Of fire besieging scholars and their dames, And bravely one gave up her own fair life In saving the most helpless from the flames. Then when I heard the instantaneous cheer That broke with sobbing undertones from all The multitude, and watched them drawing near, Stricken and mute, around her funeral pall In grief and exultation, I confest My judgment erred, - we know and love the best.
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"Our hearts are set on pleasure and on gain...."
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