Responsible for all the thistles blown
And tigers couchant, struggling in amaze
Against disease and winter, snarling on
For ever, that the world's not paradise."
Sooner or later they find that they must be satisfied with a much humbler rôle. They must learn to
"be content in work,
To do the thing we can, and not presume
To fret because it's little. 'Twill employ
Seven men, they say, to make a perfect pin, ...
Seven men to a pin, and not a man too much!