Defect somewhere compensates for success,

Every one knows that. Oh, we 're equals, sir!

The big-legged fellow has a little arm

And a less brain, though big legs win the race:

Do you suppose I 'scape the common lot?

Say, I was born with flesh so sensitive,

Soul so alert, that, practice helping both,

I guess what 's going on outside the veil,

Just as a prisoned crane feels pairing-time

In the islands where his kind are, so must fall