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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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"To know of, think about—Is all man's sum of faculty effectsWhen exercised on earth's least atom, Son!What was, what is, what may such atom be?No answer! Still, what seems it to man's sense?An atom with some certain propertiesKnown about, thought of as occasion needs,—Man's—but occasions of the universe?Unthinkable, unknowable to man.Yet, since to think and know fire through and throughExceeds man, is the warmth of fire unknown,Its uses—are they so unthinkable?Pass from such obvious power to powers unseen,Undreamed of save in their sure consequence:
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