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Updated: October 15, 2025
"Fool! matchless fool! art thou now for the first time to find out that such language toward me does not beseem thee? that thou juggler, must crawl in the dust before me? that a glance of my eye, a grasp of my iron arm, will dash thee to pieces, thou earth-born mummery with thy wretched tricks, which only prospered through my countenance." A spectre stood in the hall.
But the rose, the trusting little earth-born rose, that must stay all her life rooted in one spot till some nightingale comes to choose her some nightingale whose song maybe has been inspired and perfected by a hundred other roses, which are at the moment pot-pourri ah, the shy bosom-song of the rose ... Here the Sphinx paused, and added abruptly 'Well there is no nightingale worthy to hear it!
The earnestness was good, but Christ's sad insight saw how much strange fire had mingled in the blaze, as if some earth-born smoky flame should seek to blend with the pure sunlight.
In our humbler lives they dog our steps, and religious fervour needs ever to keep careful watch on itself, lest it should degenerate unconsciously into self-will, and should allow the muddy stream of earth-born passion to darken its crystal waters. Many a great name in the annals of the Church has fallen before that temptation.
It was like a rush of fern-scents, the breath of pine forests, the music of the stars, the first lovelight in a mother's eye; and now its pristine beauty was to be marred, as covetous eyes and a lust of possession moved an earth-born man to lay hands on all things created for his use. Camp was established on the Double Mountain Fork.
But no, he pierced her skin with his spear, so that, shrieking, she abandoned her child, and was driven, bleeding, to her immortal homestead. The rash earth-born warrior knew not that he who put his lance in rest against the immortals had but a short lease of life to live, and that his bairns would never run to lisp their sire's return, nor climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Yet was there something about her of the earth-sweetness that clings even to the loveliest, star-ambitious, earth-born thing. She was not all immortal, as man is not all mortal. She was the sweetness of the strength of the oak, the soul born of the sun kissing its green leaves in the still Memnonian mornings, of moon and stars kissing its green leaves in the still Trophonian nights.
How soon they depart for the celestial regions, to which they belong, leaving breaking hearts behind!" "Woe to the earth-born selfishness, that riseth up in opposition! It is not agreeable to the law of God, nor can be. Down with the rebellion of ignorance and unbelief." "But is no allowance to be made for human weakness? May we not weep over the calamities of life?"
It was all city and all country, all country and all city. Those which lay before me I was ready to believe were the Elysian Fields. I imagined that I saw under my feet the dwellings of purified men and of gods. Certainly they were too glorious for the mere earth-born.
'It is true, I agreed, 'O trusting little earth-born rose! 'Do you know why the rose has thorns? suddenly asked the Sphinx. Of course I knew, but I always respect a joke, particularly when it is but half-born humourists always prefer to deliver themselves so I shook my head.
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