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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.

6. MIHRAB SHAH.

Quoth an enquirer, "Praise the Merciful!My thumb which yesterday a scorpion nipped—(It swelled and blackened)—lo, is sound again!By application of a virtuous rootThe burning has abated: that is well:But now methinks I have a mind to ask,—Since this discomfort came of culling herbsNor meaning harm,—why needs a scorpion be?Yea, there began, from when my thumb last throbbed,
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