TALES OF THE GREEKS
the Spartan ladies, and their noble purpose of helping their native land. They pointed to a goal for the people to go to, though they never lived to reach the happier place themselves. As we remember Agis and the brave women, we seem to see a light shine about us—the light of their good deeds:
Say not they die, those martyr souls
Whose life is winged with purpose fine;
Who leave us, pointing to the goals,
Who learn to conquer and resign.
Such cannot die; they vanquish time,
And fill the world with growing light,
Making the human life sublime
With memories of their sacred might.
(Malcolm Quin.)
A VALIANT HELPER
"YOU don't look after yourself enough. You are not doing your duty."
"Why do you say so? I take care of my wife and children, and I serve my fatherland."
"Yes, but you do not get all the money you can."
"Money? Oh, well, I can do without much money. Yonder man needs money. He is both lame and blind."
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