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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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—These which I strew? This bean was white, this—black,Set by itself,—but see if, good and badEach following either in companionship,Black have not grown less black and white less white,Till blackish seems but dun, and whitish—grey,And the whole line turns—well, or black to theeOr white belike to me—no matter which:The main result is—both are modifiedAccording to our eye's scope, power of rangeBefore and after. Black dost call this bean?What, with a whiteness in its wake, which—see—Suffuses half its neighbour?—and, in turn,Lowers its pearliness late absolute,Frowned upon by the jet which follows hard—
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