Question

Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead,
"Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
Me?"....God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.

Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.

Which line is a contrast to the welcome he had received.

Answer 1

The lines are:

For they fling, whoever has a mind,
Stones at me for my year’s misdeeds.
In spite of this self-sacrifice, the good deeds are seem to be oft been forgotten.