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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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Commonly deemed love-worthy. All the same,I would he were not wasting, slow but sure,With that internal ulcer" . . ."Say'st thou so?How should I guess? Alack, poor soul! But stay—Sure in the reach of art some remedyMust lie to hand or if it lurk,—that leechOf fame in Tebriz, why not seek his aid?Couldst not thou, Dervish, counsel in the case?"
"My counsel might be—what imports a pangThe more or less, which puts an end to oneOdious in spite of every attributeCommonly deemed love-worthy?"
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