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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
Next moment mind's conception: fire is fire—While what I needs must thank, must needs includePurpose with power,—humanity like mine,Imagined, for the dear necessity,One moment in an object which the nextConfesses unimaginable. Power!—What need of will, then? what opposes power?Why, purpose? any change must be for worse:And what occasion for beneficenceWhen all that is, so is and so must be;Best being best now, change were for the worse.Accordingly discard these qualitiesProper to imperfection, take for typeMere fire, eject the man, retain the orb,—The perfect and, so, inconceivable,—
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