Ralph de Bricassart: [ legend of the thorn bird ]
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its
life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn
tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more
sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing,
it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it
rises above its own agony, to out sing the lark and the nightingale. The
thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills
to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
Meggie Cleary:
What does it mean, Father?
Ralph de Bricassart:
That the best... is bought only at the cost of great pain.
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