You are certainly I: but certainly I am not you.

Springs the rock from the plain, shoots the stream from the rock;

Cocks exist for the hen: but hens exist for the cock.

God, whom we see not, is: and God, who is not, we see;

Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle, we take it, is dee.

Algernon Charles Swinburne.

TIMBUCTOO.—PART I.

The situation.

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