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