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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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—What is he? Author of all light and life:Such one must needs be somewhere: this is he.Like what? If I may trust my human eyes,A ball composed of spirit-fire, whence springs—What, from this ball, my arms could circle round?All I enjoy on earth. By consequence,Inspiring me with—what? Why, love and praise.I eat a palatable fig—there's loveIn little who first planted what I pluck,Obtains my little praise, too: more of bothKeeps due proportion with more cause for each:So, more and ever more, till most of allCompletes experience, and the orb, descriedUltimate giver of all good, perforceGathers unto himself all love, all praise,
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