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If in a drop of water
One cannot see the river
Nor see the full
In the smallest part
What use is this eye?
It’s but a toy
For a child to play
For only that eye
Is the real eye
Which can see
The whole in a part
Or the river in a drop.
Ghalib
(18th century Urdu and Persian poet who lived in India)