Giving And Taking

"Who gives and hides the giving hand,     Nor counts on favor, fame, or praise,     Shall find his smallest gift outweighs     The burden of the sea and land.     Who gives to whom hath naught been given,     His gift in need, though small indeed     As is the grass-blade's wind-blown seed,     Is large as earth and rich as heaven.     Forget it not, O man, to whom     A gift shall fall, while yet on earth;     Yea, even to thy seven-fold birth     Recall it in the lives to come.     Who broods above a wrong in thought     Sins much; but greater sin is his     Who, fed and clothed with kindnesses,     Shall count the holy alms as nought.     Who dares to curse the hands that bless     Shall know of sin the deadliest cost;     The patience of the heavens is lost     Beholding man's unthankfulness.     For he who breaks all laws may still     In Sivam's mercy be forgiven;     But none can save, in earth or heaven,     The wretch who answers good with ill