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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.

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.