{"product_id":"2940033060207","title":"Epic Thoughts: The Best Of","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe have often asked why some space exists,\u003cbr\u003eWhy it permits the countless to briefly persist\u003cbr\u003eOn Mother Earth, nourished under Father Sky—\u003cbr\u003eAll of those finite sparks that light and die.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere were those who endlessly debated,\u003cbr\u003eWhether to live in their virtuals unabated,\u003cbr\u003eOr to press forwards and outwards, of delirium,\u003cbr\u003eTo seek out new localities in the mysterium;\u003cbr\u003eBut, the pauses of the heavy particles continued,\u003cbr\u003eAnd so there was nowhere to go for the retinued.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was much simpler once, in those days of old,\u003cbr\u003eWhen we thought that universes didn’t go cold,\u003cbr\u003eBut that they expanded and collapsed,\u003cbr\u003eStill destroying all, yet ever giving more to last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, well before that, once upon a storied time,\u003cbr\u003eWe simply made it all up, with tales and rhyme,\u003cbr\u003eIn place of any physical observations,\u003cbr\u003eOr of all our revealing experimentations.\u003cbr\u003e…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a beauty and a brilliance\u003cbr\u003eFlashing up in its destructance;\u003cbr\u003eFor, everything isn’t here to stay its “best”;\u003cbr\u003eIt’s merely there to die in its sublimeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike slow fires making their brands, it breeds;\u003cbr\u003eYet, ever consumes and moves on, as more it feeds,\u003cbr\u003eThen spreads forth anew, this unpurposed dispersion,\u003cbr\u003eAn inexorable emergence with little reversion,\u003cbr\u003eEver becoming of its glorious excursions\u003cbr\u003eThrough the change that patient time restrains,\u003cbr\u003eAnd feasting upon the glorious decayed remains,\u003cbr\u003eIn its progressive march through losses for gains.\u003cbr\u003e…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith flora mystical and magical,\u003cbr\u003eEden’s botanical garden was blest,\u003cbr\u003eSo Eve, taking more than just the Apple,\u003cbr\u003ePlucked off the loveliest of the best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus it’s to Eve that we must give our thanks\u003cbr\u003eFor Earth’s variety of fruits and plants,\u003cbr\u003eFor when she was out of Paradise thrown,\u003cbr\u003eShe stole all the flowers we’ve ever known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherewith, through sensuous beauty and grace,\u003cbr\u003eEve with Adam brought forth the human race,\u003cbr\u003eBut our world would never have come to be,\u003cbr\u003eHad not GOD allowed them HIS mystery,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor when they were banished from HIS bosom,\u003cbr\u003eEve saw more than just the Apple Blossom,\u003cbr\u003eAnd took, on her way through Eden’s bowers,\u003cbr\u003eMany wondrous plants and fruitful flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMighty GOD, upon seeing this great theft,\u003cbr\u003eAt first was angered, but soon smiled and wept,\u003cbr\u003eFor human nature was made in HIS name—\u003cbr\u003eSo HE had no one but HIMSELF to blame!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut still HE made ready HIS thunderbolt,\u003cbr\u003eAs HIS Old Testament wrath cast its vote\u003cbr\u003eTo end this experiment gone so wrong—\u003cbr\u003eAnd then HE felt the joy of life’s new song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEve had all the plants that she could carry—\u003cbr\u003eGOD in HIS wisdom grew uncontrary.\u003cbr\u003eOut of Eden she waved the flowered wands,\u003cbr\u003eThe seeds spilling upon the barren lands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGOD held the lightning bolt already lit,\u003cbr\u003eNo longer knowing what to do with it,\u003cbr\u003eSo HE threw it into the heart of Hell,\u003cbr\u003eForming of it a place where all was well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus the world from molten fire had birth,\u003cbr\u003eAs Hell faded and was turned into Earth.\u003cbr\u003eThis HE gave to Adam and Eve with love,\u003cbr\u003eFor them and theirs to make a Heaven of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom HIS bolt grew the Hawthorn and Bluebell,\u003cbr\u003eAnd HE be damned, for Eve stole these as well!\u003cbr\u003eSo HE laughed and pretended not to see,\u003cbr\u003eRetreating into eternity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“So be it,” HE said, when time was young,\u003cbr\u003e“That such is the life MY design has wrung,\u003cbr\u003eFor in their souls some part of ME has sprung—\u003cbr\u003eSo let them enjoy all the songs I’ve sung.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Life was much too easy in Paradise,\u003cbr\u003eAnd lacked therefore of any real meaning,\u003cbr\u003eFor without the lows there can be no highs—\u003cbr\u003eAll that remains is a dull flat feeling!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There’s no Devil to blame for their great zest—\u003cbr\u003eThis mix of good and ‘bad’ makes them best!\u003cbr\u003eThe human nature that lets them survive,\u003cbr\u003eAlso makes them feel very much alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“That same beastful soul that makes them glad\u003cbr\u003eDoes also make them seem a little bad.\u003cbr\u003eIf only I could strip the wrong from right,\u003cbr\u003eBut I cannot have the day without the night!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo it was that with fertile delight Eve\u003cbr\u003eSeeded the lifeless Earth for us to receive.\u003cbr\u003eThough many flowers she had to leave behind,\u003cbr\u003eThese we have from the Mother of Mankind:\u003cbr\u003e…\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austin P. 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