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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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For as our liege the Shah's sublime estateMerely enhaloes, leaves him man the same,So must I count that orb I call a fire(Keep to the language of our ignorance)Something that's fire and more beside: mere fire—Is it a force which, giving, knows it gives,And wherefore, so may look for love and praiseFrom me, fire's like so far, however lessIn all beside? Prime cause this fire shall be,Uncaused, all-causing: hence begin the gifts,Thither must go my love and praise—to what?Fire? Symbol fitly serves the symbolizedHerein,—that this same object of my thanks,While to my mind nowise conceivableExcept as mind no less than fire, refutes
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