One fire burns out another's burning,

One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 2.

The boy stood on the burning deck,

Whence all but him had fled;

The flame that lit the battle's wreck

Shone round him o'er the dead.

John Keble (1792-1866): Casabianca.

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine

Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast

Of some great ammiral were but a wand,

He walk'd with to support uneasy steps

Over the burning marle.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 292.