THE MICE OF HISTORY

"History is the lengthened shadows of great men,"
they tell us,
But in the shadows of time
dwell the little ones
who make the final difference.

Kings and queens and generals
move across the chessboard of centuries;
But the mice of history take care of life--
they till the earth and bake the bread
and in the end
they are the ones
whose death is noticed by God.


--Harry L. Serio
March, 1989