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1.  *     By heaven and the night-star!
 
2.  *     And what shall teach thee what is the night-star?
 
3.  *     The piercing star!
 
4.  *     Over every soul there is a watcher.
 
5.  *     So let man consider of what he was created;
 
6.  *     he was created of gushing water
 
7.  *     issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.
 
8.  *     Surely He is able to bring him back
 
9.  *     upon the day when the secrets are tried,
 
10.  *     and he shall have no strength, no helper.
 
11.  *     By heaven of the returning rain,
 
12.  *     by earth splitting with verdure,
 
13.  *     surely it is a decisive word;
 
14.  *     it is no merriment.
 
15.  *     They are devising guile,
 
16.  *     and I am devising guile.
 
17.  *     So respite the unbelievers; delay with them awhile.