Dash into poetry, which is but Passion,
Or, at least, was so ere it grew a fashion.
CVII.
If in the course of such a life as was
At once adventurous and contemplative,
Men who partake all passions as they pass,
Acquire the deep and bitter power to give[EN]
Their images again as in a glass,
And in such colours that they seem to live;
You may do right forbidding them to show 'em,