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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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Were added to humanity's mischance,No doubt at all, and as a man's false stepNow lays him prone on earth, contrariwise,Removal from his shoulder of a weightMight start him upwards to perdition. Ay!But since such law exists in just thy brainI shall not hesitate to doff my capFor fear my head take flight.""Nor feel reliefFinding it firm on shoulder. Tell me, now!What were the bond 'twixt man and man, dost judge,Pain once abolished? Come, be true! Our Shah—How stands he in thy favour? Why that shrug?Is not he lord and ruler?"
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