Talents differ; all is well and wisely put:

If I cannot carry forests on my back,

Neither can you crack a nut.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson.

ABOU BEN ADHEM.

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)

Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,

And saw, within the moonlight in his room,

Making it rich and like a lily in bloom,

An angel writing in a book of gold;