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1.  *     I NEED not to swear by this SOIL,
 
2.  *     This soil on which thou dost dwell,
 
3.  *     Or by sire and offspring!
 
4.  *     Surely in trouble have we created man.
 
5.  *     What! thinketh he that no one hath power over him?
 
6.  *     I have wasted, saith he, "enormous riches!"
 
7.  *     What! thinketh he that no one regardeth him?
 
8.  *     What! have we not made him eyes,
 
9.  *     And tongue, and lips,
 
10.  *     And guided him to the two highways?
 
11.  *     Yet he attempted not the steep.
 
12.  *     And who shall teach thee what the steep is?
 
13.  *     It is to ransom the captive,
 
14.  *     Or to feed in the day of famine,
 
15.  *     The orphan who is near of kin, or the poor that lieth in the dust;
 
16.  *     Beside this, to be of those who believe, and enjoin stedfastness on each other, and enjoin compassion on each other.
 
17.  *     These shall be the people of the right hand:
 
18.  *     While they who disbelieve our signs,
 
19.  *     Shall be the people of the left.
 
20.  *     Around them the fire shall close.