Dangerless

In the face of danger the heart is roused, and in the exaltation of determination forgets its pain; it is the long monotony of dangerless days that tries the spirit hardest.

But now that you, fair lord, are dangerless, The sons of Baba shall their rigour show, And prove it was not baseness did oppress Our hearts so long, but honour kept them low.

The emotional experiences provided by art are dangerless because of our knowledge that the exciting and as such essentially soul-stirring events and images of life which art expresses are not real, but only imitations of real events and phenomena.