Littles Make the Great

LITTLES MAKE THE GREAT

Little rills make wider streamlets;

Streamlets swell the river's flow;

Rivers join the ocean billows,

Onward, onward, as they go.

Life is made of smallest fragments,

Shade and sunshine, work and play:

So may we, with greatest profit,

Learn a little every day.

Tiny seeds make boundless harvests;

Drops of rain compose the showers;

Seconds make the flying minutes,

And the minutes make the hours.

Let us hasten, then, and catch them

As they pass us on the way;

And with honest, true endeavor,

Learn a little every day.