Your path is thorny and rough and crude,

And mine is broad and plain;

My road is paved with flowers and gems,

And yours with tears and pain.

The sky above me is always blue:

No want, no toil, I know;

The sky above you is always dark;

Your lot is a lot of woe.

My path, you see, is a broad, fair path,

And my gate is high and wide—