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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
His native grace, no alien gift at all.The bubble breaks here. Will of man create?No more than this my hand which strewed the beansProduced them also from its finger-tips.Back goes creation to its source, source primeAnd ultimate, the single and the sole.How reconcile discordancy,—uniteNotion and notion—God that only canYet does not,—man that would indeedBut just as surely cannot,—both in one?What help occurs to our intelligence?
Ah, the beans,—or,—example better yet,—A carpet-web I saw once leave the loomAnd lie at gorgeous length in Ispahan:
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