Miss Gordon Cumming tells how she heard in Japan a bird which
seemed to have for its sole note, “Me! Me! Me!” She and her
party called it “the me-bird.”
There are numerous “me birds” that belong to the human family. They
might also be called “ay, ay birds.”
(884)
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In Delhi once stood a temple whose ceiling was set with
diamonds, and beneath which stood the throne of the divine
peacock. The jewels in this temple were worth $30,000,000. On
the marble pedestal of the throne, in Arabic, were these words,
“If ever there were paradise on earth, it is here, it is here,
it is here.” But the facts are that this temple was built by
poor slaves, many of whom died of starvation and cruelty while
in the act of building it. This temple represents intensity
without breadth. Treasures and education have been concentrated
to produce an awful kind of egotism. Men and women have been
known to be sublimely beautiful within themselves, but in
relation to others ugly, hollow, and deformed, their narrowness
grating rudely on the finer sensibilities. (Text.)--VYRNWY
MORGAN, “The Cambro-American Pulpit.”
(885)
See SELF-MEASUREMENT.
=Egyptian Builders=--See BUILDERS, ANCIENT.