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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
Behind as erst before the advancer: gloom?Faced by the onward-faring, see, succeedsFrom the abandoned heaven a next surprise,And where's the gloom now?—silver-smitten straight,One glow and variegation! So with me,Who move and make,—myself,—the black, the white,The good, the bad, of life's environment.Stand still! black stays black: start again! there's whiteAsserts supremacy: the motion's allThat colours me my moment: seen as joy?—I have escaped from sorrow, or that wasOr might have been as sorrow?—thence shall beEscape as certain white preceded black,Black shall give way to white as duly,—so,Deepest in black means white most imminent.
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