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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."

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?"