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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: live for ever, that I may help poor mortal men.' So Cheiron
gave him his immortality, and died, and had rest from pain.
And Heracles and Prometheus wept over him, and went to bury
him on Pelion; but Zeus took him up among the stars, to live
for ever, grand and mild, low down in the far southern sky.
And in time the heroes died, all but Nestor, the silver-
tongued old man; and left behind them valiant sons, but not
so great as they had been. Yet their fame, too, lives till
this day, for they fought at the ten years' siege of Troy:
and their story is in the book which we call Homer, in two of
the noblest songs on earth - the 'Iliad,' which tells us of
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