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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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'Hakim's, ay—but chit's?How? what the skilled eye saw and judged of weightTo overbear a heavy consequence,That—shall a sciolist affect to see?All he saw—that is, all such oaf should see,Was just the mother's suffering.""In my tale,Be God the Hakim: in the husband's case,Call ready acquiescence—aptitudeAngelic, understanding swift and sure:Call the first son—a wise humanity,Slow to conceive but duteous to adopt:See in the second son—humanity,Wrong-headed yet right-hearted, rash but kind:Last comes the cackler of the brood, our chit
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