Fellow-Feeling
The Benevolent Dictators
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So I mourn for the dead, though they cannot hear my cries What good is it unnoticed, what good is it to try From that fear of cold and darkness, when imagined in that grave Give power to restrain the injustice of mankind The fortune of others, as I conceive Not just the virtuous, or humane However selfish that I may seem Derive his sorrow Though at ease I cannot feel his pain, imagination puts me in his place The stroke is aimed (I shrink back) upon his arm The beggar on the street, ulcers and sores On the slackrope (I twist) the dancer writhes Only conception Yet enough to cause me that unease, the robust and feeble feel it too To share the amusement of a book or a poem And to enter in their sentiments just as if they were our own The mortification when we jest and no one joins Feels so instantaneous that it cannot be self-love The stroke is aimed upon his arm The beggar on the street, ulcers and sores On the slackrope the dancer writhes Only conception Though at ease I cannot feel his pain, imagination puts me in his place Yet enough to cause me that unease, the robust and feeble feel it too
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