And last, that trembling vassal of the Pole—
The feeling compass—Navigation's soul.[356]
VI.
And now the self-elected Chief finds time
To stun the first sensation of his crime,
And raise it in his followers—"Ho! the bowl!"[357]
Lest passion should return to reason's shoal.[fb]100
"Brandy for heroes!"[358] Burke could once exclaim—
No doubt a liquid path to Epic fame;
And such the new-born heroes found it here,