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;