Blessings

When you're criticizing others,

And are finding, here and there,

A fault or two to speak of,

Or a weakness you can't bear;

When you're blaming someone's weakness,

Or accusing some of pelf --

It's time that you went out

To walk around yourself.

There are lots of human failures

In the average of us all;

And lots of grave shortcomings

In the short ones and the tall;

But when we think of evils

Men should lay upon the shelves,

It's time we all went out

To take a walk around ourselves.

We need so often in this life

This balancing of scales;

This seeing how much in us wins

And how much in us fails;

But before you judge another

Just to lay him on the shelf --

It would be a spendid plan

To take a walk around yourself.

~Author Unknown~