The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel;
And the former called the latter ‘Little Prig.'
Bun replied,
‘You are doubtless very big;
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together,
To make up a year
And a sphere.
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I'm not so large as you,
You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry.
I'll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track;
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
Bun shows the mountain the other side of the coin; while Bun isn’t nearly as big as the mountain, the mountain isn’t nearly as small and spry as Bun. 
 Emerson doesn’t like relative terms, as is visible by his other poem on the subject,  Brahma