Ruffhead, James

The Passions of Man. A Poem. In Four Epistles

London

Printed for the Author

1746

The soul may have "sallies, shifts, and eddies" that roll "like a troubled ocean"

Persist, my Muse, to probe the heart of man,
And-from thy microscope-his manners scan,
The sallies, shifts, and eddies of his soul,
Which, like a troubled ocean, in him roll,
Point out his follies pierce, restore a blush,
Ambition-in its heaps of ruin-crush.
Say why in spight of all the sage's light,
Wisdom but glimmers in the shades of night,
But faintly dictates-what is good and best,
In spirit wanting-to enforce the rest.
O thou, the glory of Britannia's isle,
Statesman, yet free from all the statesman's guile,
In whom - the virtues of the noblest soul
Sublime the genius, and its starts controul,
Thy weighty cares, discerning Laelius! quit,
And an obtruding Muse - a while admit.
(pp. 1-2, in. 79-80)

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01/06/2004