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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
White in the main, and, yea—white's faintest traceWere clean abolished once and evermore.Thus fare my fellows, swallowed up in gloomSo far as I discern: how far is that?God's care be God's! ’Tis mine—to boast no joyUnsobered by such sorrows of my kindAs sully with their shade my life that shines."
"Reflected possibilities of pain,Forsooth, just chasten pleasure! Pain itself,—Fact and not fancy, does not this affectThe general colour?"
"Here and there a touchTaught me, betimes, the artifice of things—
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