A Saturday Thought

A FABLE

             by Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

The mountain and the squirrel
Had 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 in 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 well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut."

"All sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere."  It's risky, perhaps fool-hardy,  to jump to obvious conclusions!

I imagine I will have plenty of conversations

with the mountain over this next year! 

I will meet it heart to heart,

as well as foot to trail.