So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud,and the earth seemed to them like a flower of silver,and the moon like a flower of gold.
Yet,after they had laughed they became sad,for they remembered their poverty,and one of them said to the other:“Why did we make merry,seeing that life is for the rich,and not for such as we are? Better that we had died of cold in the forest,or that some wild beast had fallen upon us and slain us.”