human
Foolish children, you don't realize that your country lies hundreds of miles away from here.
gpt
That does not matter, we can walk home.
human
Here you have a home, clothes and food and friends who love you; what more do you desire?
gpt
More than anything else we want to go home,
human
But there is nothing but poverty and want in your home. There you would have to sleep on miserable moss beds and suffer from cold and hunger. Probably your parents, sisters, brothers and friends are dead long ago, and if you look for them you will find only tracks of wolves in the snow-drifts on the lonely field where your cottage used to stand.
gpt
Yes, said the children,
human
But you have been away from your home for many years, you were only six and seven years old when you were carried away. You have forgotten the road you came on. You can't even remember how your parents look.
gpt
Yes, said the children,
human
Who is going to show you the way?
gpt
God will help us, answered the boy,
human
And I remember that a beautiful star shines through the branches of the birch at night,
gpt
Foolish children, said the people in the foreign land,