To ANTHONY BURGESS,
Gratitudinously
He weren’t no saint—but at jedgment
I’d run my chance with Jim,
‘Longside of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn’t shook hands with him.
He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing,—
And went for it thar and then;
And Christ ain’t a-going to be too hard
On a man that died for men.
John Hay, Jim Bludso
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists