text:  Pope's "passion had _not_ been too powerful for his understanding " nor for his imagination neither when he was inditing the following pathetic and picturesque lines:-- "With that a tear (portentous sign of grace!) Stole from the master of the seven-fold face And thrice he lifted high the Birth-day brand And thrice he dropt it from his quivering hand; Then lights the structure with averted eyes; The rolling smoke involves the sacrifice