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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
Supply it to my fellows,—ignorant,As so I should be of the thing they crave,How it affects them, works for good or ill.Style my enjoyment self-indulgence—sin—Why should I labour to infect my kindWith sin's occasion, bid them too enjoy,Who else might neither catch nor give againJoy's plague, but live in righteous misery?Just as I cannot, till myself convinced,Impart conviction, so, to deal forth joyAdroitly, needs must I know joy myself.Renounce joy for my fellows' sake? That 's joyBeyond joy; but renounced for mine, not theirs?Why, the physician called to help the sick,Cries 'Let me, first of all, discard my health!'
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