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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
Were sundry fellow-mortals singled outTo undergo experience for his sake,Just that the gift of pain, bestowed on them,In him might temper to the due degreeJoy's else-excessive largess?' Why, indeed!Back are we brought thus to the starting-point—Man's impotency, God's omnipotence,These stop my answer. Aphis that I am,How leave my inch-allotment, pass at willInto my fellow's liberty of range,Enter into his sense of black and white,As either, seen by me from outside, seemsPredominatingly the colour? Life,Lived by my fellow, shall I pass intoAnd myself live there? No—no more than pass
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