Denmark seen from foreign land

looks but like a grain of sand.

Denmark as we Danes conceive it

is so big you won’t believe it.

Why not let us compromise

about Denmark’s proper size.

Which will truly please us all

since it’s greater than it’s small.

Piet Hein

Copyright © Piet Hein Illustration & Grook

Reprinted with kind permission from Piet Hein a/s, Middelfart, Denmark