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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
I needs must blend the quality of manWith quality of God, and so assistMere human sight to understand my Life,What is, what should be,—understand therebyWherefore I hate the first and love the last,—Understand why things so present themselvesTo me, placed here to prove I understand.Thus, from beginning runs the chain to end,And binds me plain enough. By consequence,I bade thee tolerate,—not kick and cuffThe man who held that natures did in factBlend so, since so thyself must have them blendIn fancy, if it take a flight so far."
"A power, confessed past knowledge, nay, past thought,―Thus thought and known!"
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