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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
'Be magnified, O master, for the mealSo opportunely liberal!' quoth that.'What use of strength in me but to surmountSands and simooms, and bend beneath thy balesNo knee until I reach the glad bazaar?Thus I do justice to thy fare: no sprigOf toothsome chervil must I leave unchewed!Too bitterly should I reproach myselfDid I sink down in sight of Sebzevah,Remembering how the merest mouthful moreHad heartened me to manage yet a mile!'And so it proved: the too-abstemious bruteMidway broke down, his pack rejoiced the thieves,His carcass fed the vultures: not so heThe wisely thankful, who, good market-drudge,
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