GREAT LINES FROM GREAT POEMS
(PART SEVEN}
1.The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter: Little
Prig”;
Bun replied,
“You are doubtless very big;
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken together,
To make up a year
And a sphere.
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I’m not so large as you,
You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry.
I’ll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track;
Talents differ, all is wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut.”--------Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
2. A wise old owl lived in an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard:
Why can’t we all be like that bird?
-----Edward Hersey Richards.
3. Ladies, to this advice give
heed---
In controlling men:
If at first you don’t succeed,
Why, cry, try again. ------Anonymous.
4. A stranger came one night to
Yussouf’s tent,
Saying, “Behold one outcast and in
dread,
Against whose life the bow of power
is bent,
Who flies, and hath not where to lay
his head;
I come to thee for shelter and for
food,
To Yussouf , called through all our
tribes “The Good.”
“This tent is mine,” said Yussouf. “but
no more
Than it is God’s; come in, and be at peace;
Freely shalt thou partake of all my
store
As I of His who buildeth over these
Our tents his glorious roof of night
and day,
And at whose door none ever yet heard
Nay.”----James Russell Lowell
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Compiler: G.R.Kanwal
23 October 2025
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