Creatures Great and Small

CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL Of all creatures great and small Insects are most assiduous folk of all They perform assigned duties each day And let nothing dissuade them on their way The till the soil and collect the forage Their labor brings them food, some for storage Their diligent spirits have no equaled pace Mostly repulsed by a higher stationed race Human beings became Self appointed superiors But without these small beasts humans would be their inferiors