{"product_id":"2940016110882","title":"The Story of an Ostrich","description":"[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Thou sluggard in bonds to a vision of night,\u003cbr\u003e  Be not a king's fool, but a proud man of might:\u003cbr\u003e  Arise like a lord, that ye may not be slain,\u003cbr\u003e  No door shall imprison, no hope be in vain;\u003cbr\u003e  The world is for conquest, who seeks for such goal,\u003cbr\u003e  Will find the chain riven, the key in his soul!_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The unknown spake out of the firmament, saying,--\"Choose ye one\u003cbr\u003einstrument first, and then attune another one to it. This accomplished,\u003cbr\u003eattune then a third instrument to them; after that a fourth, and so on;\u003cbr\u003eand ye shall be all attuned alike.\"_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Thereupon, the musicians set to work, but could not agree as to whose\u003cbr\u003eshould be the first instrument._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_A pillar of fire descended from Heaven and stood in the midst of the\u003cbr\u003emusicians; and in the centre of the pillar of fire there appeared an\u003cbr\u003einstrument called the All Perfect. The instrument gave forth one note\u003cbr\u003eand all the musicians attuned to it. The Voice said, \"I have given the\u003cbr\u003ekeynote, find ye the rest!\"_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The pillar of fire departed. The instruments thus attuned in harmony\u003cbr\u003eplayed rapturously._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_This I perceive,--to make the man and wife one, to make the village\u003cbr\u003eone, to make the state one, to make the empire one,--all in harmony as\u003cbr\u003eone instrument, cannot be done without a Central Son, a Creator to\u003cbr\u003eattune to. When a man is attuned to Him, and a woman is attuned to Him,\u003cbr\u003ethey will themselves be as one. When the family and the village are\u003cbr\u003eattuned to Him, it is easy. Without Him harmony cannot be._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_He, the Creator, then, must be first in all things, first in all\u003cbr\u003eplaces. He must be the nearest of all things, the nearest of all places.\u003cbr\u003eIn our rites and ceremonies, He must be the All Ideal Perfection, the\u003cbr\u003eembodiment of a Perfect Person._--Book of Saphah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The Story of an Ostrich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  [Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  BY\u003cbr\u003e  JUDD ISAACS,\u003cbr\u003e      FORMERLY EDITOR OF THE YANKEE BLADE,\u003cbr\u003e      NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE, NICKELL MAGAZINE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of an Ostrich.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A robust old ostrich, with head little bigger\u003cbr\u003e    Than that of some creatures of far frailer figure,\u003cbr\u003e    With two legs complete, and a speed very fleet,\u003cbr\u003e    Once caught a short peep at his feet, in the street.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    So far from his head did they seem to be located,\u003cbr\u003e    He failed to take note that upon each were notated\u003cbr\u003e    Scales, warts and abrasions, nails, ossification,\u003cbr\u003e    Which proved them a part of his own corporation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    He noticed, however, wherever he went,\u003cbr\u003e    They came along, too, and he asked what it meant?\u003cbr\u003e    Though he walked through the town, or he stalked o'er the heath\u003cbr\u003e    He observed they remained, always, right underneath.\u003cbr\u003e    He thrust out his bust and inside he just cussed,\u003cbr\u003e    When they strode along and kept kicking up dust;\u003cbr\u003e    But in vain did he feign to abstain from disdain,\u003cbr\u003e    As he dined with the twain in the wind and the rain;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Copyrighted by the Hand Print Book Folk, Boston, Mass._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Or stared around therein, while wearing a bear-grin,\u003cbr\u003e    Evincing an evident, ill-concealed chagrin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    So very ungainly were they, like a tumor,\u003cbr\u003e    The ostrich, at last, got in very bad humor;\u003cbr\u003e    And, failing to recognise them as his own,\u003cbr\u003e    Made a peck with his beak that went clear to the bone,\u003cbr\u003e    Which gave all his nerves such a terrible thrill,\u003cbr\u003e    He quick pecked another hard peck with his bill;\u003cbr\u003e    With each peck a quiver, his frame shook with shivers,\u003cbr\u003e    As if his limp liver were pierced with slim slivers,--\u003cbr\u003e    Till both his great feet with his heart's blood were red,\u003cbr\u003e    Oozing out on the ground, as he'd painfully tread.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121460691184,"sku":"2940016110882","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016110882","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}