La lecture

The Romans, above all else in a person, admired pietas:

The love of your family, the love of your gods, the love of your country. The archetypal example of this is -

- Excuse me, I have to turn off the bath -

Virgil's Aeneas, the hero leaving Troy

Ascanium Anchisenque patrem Teucrosque penatis

commendo sociis et curva valle recondo

Has in his hands his father and his son and his household gods.

I have for-ever been the best of daughters

A comfort to my family, in their times of itch

And from nothing I have created my own implacable faith.

Rule Britannia - yes I believe

And yet:

I know no English word that strikes the silver-fine balance between

Love and responsibility. 

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[looby]

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