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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=453846" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>He "Digesteth Harde Yron"</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although the aepyornis<br> or roc that lived in Madagascar, and<br>the moa are extinct,<br>the camel-sparrow, linked<br> with them in size--the large sparrow<br>Xenophon saw walking by a stream--was and is<br>a symbol of justice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> This bird watches his chicks with<br> a maternal concentration-and he's<br>been mothering the eggs<br>at night six weeks--his legs<br> their only weapon of defense.<br>He is swifter than a horse; he has a foot hard<br>as a hoof; the leopard</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> is not more suspicious.How<br> could he, prized for plumes and eggs and young<br>used even as a riding-beast, respect men<br> hiding actor-like in ostrich skins, with the right hand<br>making the neck move as if alive<br>and from a bag the left hand strewing grain, that ostriches</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> might be decoyed and killed!Yes, this is he<br>whose plume was anciently<br>the plume of justice; he<br> whose comic duckling head on its<br>great neck revolves with compass-needle nervousness<br>when he stands guard,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> in S-like foragings as he is<br> preening the down on his leaden-skinned back.<br>The egg piously shown<br>as Leda's very own<br> from which Castor and Pollux hatched,<br>was an ostrich-egg.And what could have been more fit<br>for the Chinese lawn it</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> grazed on as a gift to an<br> emperor who admired strange birds, than this<br>one, who builds his mud-made<br>nest in dust yet will wade<br> in lake or sea till only the head shows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	.	.	.	.	.	.	.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Six hundred ostrich-brains served<br> at one banquet, the ostrich-plume-tipped tent<br>and desert spear, jewel-<br>gorgeous ugly egg-shell<br> goblets, eight pairs of ostriches<br>in harness, dramatize a meaning<br>always missed by the externalist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The power of the visible<br> is the invisible; as even where<br>no tree of freedom grows,<br>so-called brute courage knows.<br> Heroism is exhausting, yet<br>it contradicts a greed that did not wisely spare<br>the harmless solitaire</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> or great auk in its grandeur;<br> unsolicitude having swallowed up<br>all giant birds but an alert gargantuan<br> little-winged, magnificently speedy running-bird.<br>This one remaining rebel<br>is the sparrow-camel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marianne+Moore">Marianne Moore</a><div class=q>
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 or roc that lived in Madagascar, and
the moa are extinct,
the camel-sparrow, linked
 with them in size--the large sparrow
Xenophon saw walking by a stream--was and is
a symbol of justice.

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