CIX
Fan thou a lisping fire and it will leap
In flames, but dost thou fan an ashy heap?
They would respond, indeed, whom thou dost call,
Were they not dead, alas! or dead asleep.
CX
The way of vice is open as the sky.
The way of virtue's like the needle's eye;
But whether here or there, the eager Soul
Has only two Companions—Whence and Why.
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