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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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Broad day-light perpetration,—so to speak,—I had not dared to breathe within the Ear,With black night's help about me? Yet I standA man, no monster, made of flesh not cloud:Why made so, if my making prove offenceTo Maker's eye and ear?""Thou wouldst not standDistinctly Man,"—Ferishtah made reply"Not the mere creature,—did no limit-lineRound thee about, apportion thee thy placeClean-cut from out and off the illimitable,—Minuteness severed from immensity.All of thee for the Maker,—for thyself,Workings inside the circle that evolveThine all,―the product of thy cultured plot.
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