Yet soon he healed; for Spirits, that live throughout Vital in every part⁠—not, as frail Man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins⁠— Cannot but by annihilating die; Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more than can the fluid air: All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense; and as they please They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.

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