Heroizm

Ruby Wine is drunk by knaves,

Sugar spends to fatten slaves,

Rose an vine-leaf deck buffoons;

Drooping oft in wreaths of dread,

Lightning knotted round his head;

The hero is not fed on sweets,

Daily his own heart he eats;

Chambers of the great are jails,

And head-winds right for royal sails.
 

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)