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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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The annals and consider of ThamaspAnd that sweet sun-surpassing star his love,I weep like a cut vine-twig, though awareZurah's sad fate is fiction, since the snakeHe saw devour her,—how could such exist,Having nine heads? No snake boasts more than three!I weep, then laugh—both actions right alike.But thou, Ferishtah, sapiency confessed,When at the Day of Judgment God shall ask'Didst thou believe?'—what wilt thou plead? Thy tears?(Nay, they fell fast and stain the parchment still)What if thy tears meant love? Love lacking ground—Belief,—avails thee as it would availMy own pretence to favour since, forsooth,
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