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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
Is worshipped—which means loved and praised at height.Back to the first good: 't was the gardener gaveOccasion to my palate's pleasure: grace,Plain on his part, demanded thanks on mine.Go up above this giver,—step by step,Gain a conception of what—(how and why,Matters not now)—occasioned him to give,Appointed him the gardener of the ground,—I mount by just progression slow and sureTo some prime giver—here assumed yon orb—Who takes my worship. Whom have I in mind,Thus worshipping, unless a man, my likeHowe'er above me? Man, I say—how else,I being man who worship? Here 's my handLifts first a mustard-seed, then weight on weight
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