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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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Since these nowhere exist—nor there where causeMust have effect, nor here where craving meansCraving unfollowed by fit consequenceAnd full supply, aye sought for, never found—These what are they but man's own rule of right?A scheme of goodness recognized by man,Although by man unrealizable,—Not God's with whom to will were to perform :Nowise performed here, therefore never willed.What follows but that God, who could the best,Has willed the worst,—while man, with power to matchWill with performance, were deservedlyHailed the supreme—provided . . . here's the touchThat breaks the bubble . . . this concept of man'sWere man's own work, his birth of heart and brain,
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