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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
For apprehended pleasure, nowise doubt!Pay its due tribute,—sure that pleasure is,While knowledge may be, at the most. See, now!Eating my breakfast, I thanked God.—'For loveShown in the cherries' flavour? ConsecrateSo petty an example?' There's the fault!We circumscribe omnipotence. Search sandTo unearth water: if first handful scoopedYields thee a draught, what need of digging downFull fifty fathoms deep to find a springWhereof the pulse would deluge half the land?Drain the sufficient drop, and praise what checksThe drouth that glues thy tongue,—what more would helpA brimful cistern? Ask the cistern's boon
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