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First Line: They all muddy the water that it may seem deep
Last Line: Does it tire of its lace-fan of silver and silk


They all muddle their water that it may seem deep. And fain would they thereby prove themselves
reconcilers: but mediaries and mixers are they unto me, and half-and-half, and impure!- Ah, I cast
indeed my net into their sea, and meant to catch good fish; but always did I draw up the head of
some ancient God.
Thus did the sea give a stone to the hungry one. And they themselves may well originate from the
sea.
Certainly, one findeth pearls in them: thereby they are the more like hard molluscs. And instead of
a soul, I have often found in them salt slime.
They have learned from the sea also its vanity: is not the sea the peacock of peacocks?
Even before the ugliest of all buffaloes doth it spread out its tail; never doth it tire of its
lace-fan of silver and silk








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