Greatness

We can be great by helping one another;

    We can be loved for very simple deeds;

  Who has the grateful mention of a brother

    Has really all the honor that he needs.

  We can be famous for our works of kindness--

    Fame is not born alone of strength or skill;

  It sometimes comes from deafness and from

     blindness

    To petty words and faults, and loving still.

  We can be rich in gentle smiles and sunny:

    A jeweled soul exceeds a royal crown.

  The richest men sometimes have little money,

    And Croesus oft's the poorest man in town.

 

                                        by Edgar Albert Guest