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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
Yestereve, what was thine admonishment?'All-wise, all-good, all-mighty—God is such!'How then should man, the all-unworthy, darePropose to set aside a thing ordained?To pray means—substitute man's will for God's:Two best wills cannot be: by consequence,What is man bound to but—assent, say I?Rather to rapture of thanksgiving; sinceThat which seems worst to man to God is best,So, because God ordains it, best to man.Yet man—the foolish, weak and wicked—prays!Urges 'My best were better, didst Thou know'!"
"List to a tale. A worthy householderOf Shiraz had three sons, beside a spouse
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