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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
And threw such tint pain might mean pain indeedSeen in the passage past it,—pleasure proveNo mere delusion while I paused to look,—Though what an idle fancy was that fearWhich overhung and hindered pleasure's hue!While how, again, pain's shade enhanced the shineOf pleasure, else no pleasure! Such effectsCame of such causes. Passage at an end,—Past, present, future pains and pleasures fusedSo that one glance may gather blacks and whitesInto a life-time,—like my bean-streak there,Why, white they whirl into, not black—for me!"
"Ay, but for me? The indubitable blacks,Immeasurable miseries, here, there
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