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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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And some five pippins from the seedling tree,—Would they were half-a-dozen! anyhow,Accept my all, poor beggar that I am!''Received in full of all demands!' smiled backThe apportioner of every lot of groundFrom inch to acre. Littleness of loveBefits the littleness of loving thing.What if he boasted 'Seeing I am great,Great must my corresponding tribute be?'Mushtari,—well, suppose him seven times sevenThe sun's superior, proved so by some sage:Am I that sage? To me his twinkle blueIs all I know of him and thank him for,And therefore I have put the same in verse—'Like yon blue twinkle, twinks thine eye, my Love!'
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