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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
None of these absolutes therefore,―yet himself,A creature with a creature's qualities.Make them agree, these two conceptions! EachAbolishes the other. Is man weak,Foolish and bad? He must be Ahriman,Co-equal with an Ormuzd, Bad with Good,Or else a thing made at the Prime Sole Will,Doing a maker's pleasure—with resultsWhich—call, the wide world over, 'what must be'—But, from man's point of view, and only pointPossible to his powers, call—evidenceOf goodness, wisdom, strength—we mock ourselvesIn all that 's best of us,—man's blind but sureCraving for these in very deed not word,Reality and not illusion. Well,―
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