LITTLE THINGS---AN ANONYMOUS POEM

 

 

                             LITTLE THINGS---AN ANONYMOUS POEM  

           

Little things are not unimportant. They are indispensible where they are needed. They cannot be replaced by big things because they will be misfits. A tree cannot become a substitute for a flower; and an elephant cannot serve the purpose of a goat.       

 

                        THE LITTLE THINGS

 

If any little word of mine

May make a life the brighter,

If any little song of mine

May make a heart the lighter,

God help me speak the little word

And take my bit of singing,

And drop it in some lonely vale

To set the echoes ringing.

 

If any little love of mine

May make a life the sweeter,

If any little care of mine

May make a friend’s the fleeter

If any little lift may ease

The burden of another,

God give me love, and care, and strength

To help my toiling brother.

 

            In his poem The Noble Nature, the English poet-playwright  Ben Jonson (1572-1637) says: In small proportions we just beauties see, and in short measures life may perfect be.

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G.R.Kanwal

12 November 2025