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And still another: "We are coins which fade
In circulation, coins which Allah made
To cheat Iblis: the good and bad alike
Are spent by Fate upon a passing shade."

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And in the pottery the potter cried,
As on his work shone all the master's pride—
"How is it, Rabbi, I, thy slave, can make
Such vessels as nobody dare deride?"

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