Be The Best of What Ever You Are!

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,

Be a scrub in the valley-but be

The best little scrub by the sid eof the rill;

Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush by a bit of the grass,

And some highway happier make;

If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass-

But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captians, we've got to be crew,

There's something for all of us here,

There's big ork to do, and there's lesser to do,

And the task you must do is near.

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,

If you can' be the sun be a star;

It isn't by size that you win or you fail-

Be the best of whatever you are!

- Douglas Malloch