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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
64 FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
Wherefore the rye-grass bundle, why each day's Patting and petting, but to intimate My playsomeness had pleased thee ? Thou endowed With reason, truly ! ' "
" Reason aims to raise Some makeshift midway scaffold-vantage, whence It may, for life's brief moment, peer below : But apes omniscience ? Nay ! The ladder lent To climb by, step and step, until we reach The little foothold-rise allowed mankind To mount on and there guess the sun's survey — Shall this avail to show them world-wide truth Stretched for the sun's descrying ? Reason bids ' Teach, Man, thy beast his dut}' first of all Or last of all, with blows if blows must be, —
