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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
Such am not I: but, man—as man I speak:Black is the bean-throw: evil is the Life!"
"Look, I strew beans"—resumed Ferishtah—"beansBlackish and whitish; what they figure forthShall be man's sum of moments, bad and good,That make up Life,—each moment when he feelsPleasure or pain, his poorest fact of sense,Consciousness anyhow: there's stand the first;Whence next advance shall be from points to line,Singulars to a series, parts to whole,And moments to the Life. How look they now,Viewed in the large, those little joys and griefsRanged duly all a-row at last, like beans
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