The Fair Ones

A man who cultivates a garden, as Voltaire wished.
The one who is grateful that music exists.
The one who takes pleasure in tracing an etymology.
Two workmen playing, in a cafe in the South, a silent game of chess.
The potter, contemplating a color and a form.
A typographer who sets this page well, which may not please him.
A woman and a man, who read the last tercets of a certain canto.
The one who caresses a sleeping animal.
The one who justifies, or wishes to justifiy, a wrong done him.
The one who is grateful that there is Stevenson on earth.
The one who prefers others to be right.
These people, who go unnoticed, are saving the world.

- Jorge Luís Borges -