How big is a man, anyway? Well, he is smaller than an elephant,
and an elephant is smaller than a mountain, and a mountain is
smaller than the world, and the world is a mustard-seed compared
with the sun, and the sun itself is a mere mote in the dust
cloud of spheres that stretches out through the universe beyond
the reach of thought.
Coleridge said bigness is not greatness. So while mountains and worlds
are bigger than men, man can remove mountains if not worlds. It is not
mere size that counts, but power and worth. (Text.)
(1968)