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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
Wherefore the rye-grass bundle, why each day'sPatting and petting, but to intimateMy playsomeness had pleased thee? Thou endowedWith reason, truly!'""Reason aims to raiseSome makeshift midway scaffold-vantage, whenceIt may, for life's brief moment, peer below:But apes omniscience? Nay! The ladder lentTo climb by, step and step, until we reachThe little foothold-rise allowed mankindTo mount on and there guess the sun's survey—Shall this avail to show them world-wide truthStretched for the sun's descrying? Reason bids'Teach, Man, thy beast his duty first of allOr last of all, with blows if blows must be,—
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