Shall I permit my sense an Eye-viewed shame,

Broad daylight perpetration,—so to speak,—

I had not dared to breathe within the Ear,

With black night's help about me? Yet I stand

A man, no monster, made of flesh not cloud:

Why made so, if my making prove offence

To Maker's eye and ear?"

"Thou wouldst not stand

Distinctly Man,"—Ferishtah made reply,

"Not the mere creature,—did no limit-line