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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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If,—impuissance praying potency,—Thy child beseech that thou command the sunRise bright to-morrow—thou, he thinks supremeIn power and goodness, why should'st thou refuse?Afterward, when the child matures, perchanceThe fault were greater if, with wit full-grown,The stripling dared to ask for a dinar,Than that the boy cried 'Pluck Sitara downAnd give her me to play with!' ’Tis for himTo have no bounds to his belief in thee—For whom it also is to let her shineLustrous and lonely, so best serving him!"

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