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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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"Something!" So they did: a thunderclap, but louder—Lightning-flash, but fiercer—put spectators' nerves to trial:Sure enough, we learned what was, imagined what might be.
Had I no experience how a lip's mere tremble,Look's half hesitation, cheek's just change of colour,These effect a heartquake,—how should I conceiveWhat a heaven there may be? Let it but resembleEarth myself have known! No bliss that's finer, fuller,Only—bliss that lasts, they say, and fain would I believe.
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