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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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And what remains to love and praise? A stoneFair-coloured proves a solace to my eye,Rolled by my tongue brings moisture curing drouth,And struck by steel emits a useful spark:Shall I return it thanks, the insentient thing?No,—man once, man for ever—man in soulAs man in body: just as this can useIts proper senses only, see and hear,Taste, like or loathe according to its lawAnd not another creature's,—even soMan's soul is moved by what, if it in turnMust move, is kindred soul: receiving good—Man's way—must make man's due acknowledgement,No other, even while he reasons outPlainly enough that, were the man unmanned,
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