Dramatic Romances

Thus I entered, and thus I go! 
        In triumphs, people have dropped down dead. 
“Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
        Me?”—­God might question; now instead,
’Tis God shall repay:  I am safer so. 30

Notes:  “The Patriot” is a hero’s story of the reward and punishment dealt him for his services within one year.  To act regardless of praise or blame, save God’s, seems safer.