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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
Where's thy man-needed truth—its proof, nay printOf faintest passage on the tablets tracedBy man, termed knowledge? ’Tis conceded thee,We lack such fancied union—fire with flesh:But even so, to lack is not to gainOur lack's suppliance: where's the trace of suchRecorded?""What if such a tracing were?If some strange story stood,—whate'er its worth,—That the immensely yearned-for, once befell,—The sun was flesh once?—(keep the figure!)”"How?An union inconceivable was fact?"
"Son, if the stranger have convinced himselfFancy is fact—the sun, besides a fire,
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