My cot’s too small for two selves to find room therein.
The thread’s not double in a needle’s single eye.
As thou’rt now single, enter. Room thou’lt find. Pray, try!”
The thread and needle have relation, each to each;
For needle’s eye a camel’s far beyond all reach.55
How shall a camel ever be so fine and slim
Unless long fasting his redundant flesh should skim?
The hand of God is wanted, then, to make it pass;—
The God who by His word creates both man and grass.
Impossibilities are possibles to Him;