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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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Effect was twofold on them. 'Hail!' crowed This:'Dearer the news than dayspring after night!The cure-reporting youngster warrants meOur father shall make glad our eyes once more,For whom, had outpoured life of mine sufficedTo bring him back, free broached were every vein!''Avaunt, delusive tale-concocter, newsCruel as meteor simulating dawn!'Whimpered the other: 'Who believes this boy,Must disbelieve his twenty seniors: no,Return our father shall not! Might my deathPurchase his life, how promptly would the doleBe paid as due!' Well, ten years pass,—aha,Ishak is marching homeward,—doubts, not he,Are dead and done with! So, our townsfolk straight
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