The king knew that the shepherd never forgot the heaviness of a king’s crown, and the shepherd knew that the king never forgot the heaviness of a shepherd’s staff, and thus each was braced to bear his own burden; for it is a fact that our burdens are only unendurable when no one understands how heavy is their weight.
These two boys grew into men. Sorrows they had—as all men have, yet to each was given much happiness, for the one was a good king and the other a good shepherd. Far and wide Olaf the Fair was famed as the “Shepherd of all his People,” and Olaf the Dark, who guarded the royal sheep, was called the “King of all Shepherds.”
The Simple Way
John Lea
Said Mr. Wise: “I’m one of those
Who think a short and pleasant doze
Will aid in solving, yea or nay,
Such problems as perplex the day.”
So, sitting in a comfy chair,
He stretched his slippers, then and there,