LOOK UP ABOVE!
(Cosmic Songs)
My People, raise your head on high
Toward the heavens direct your glance
Behold that there are little stars
Around which, the large ones dance.
Here’s the reason why: The little ones
Are made of solid knotty stuff,
While those great, big, obedient stars
Are made of flimsy gaseous fluff.
I trust that as you grasp this thought
Your heart will leap and yearn.
Yes . . . let us be the little star
Around which, the big ones turn.
It can be done, if each of us,
Sees to his own sound stock.
If each of us be hard as flint,
Our nation will be hard as a rock.
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