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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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Sleep overtook the unwise one, whom in dreamGod thus admonished: "Hast thou marked my deed?Which part assigned by providence dost judgeWas meant for man's example? Should he playThe helpless weakling, or the helpful strengthThat captures prey and saves the perishing?Sluggard, arise: work, eat, then feed who lack!"
Waking, "I have arisen, work I will,Eat, and so following. Which lacks food the more,Body or soul in me? I starve in soul:So may mankind and since men congregateIn towns, not woods,—to Ispahan forthwith!"

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