Be the Best of Whatever 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 scrub by the side of the rill
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush,be 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 captains,we're got to be crew
There's something for all of us here,
There's big work to do,and there's lesser to do,
And the tesk you must do is the near .

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun,be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail---
Be the best of whatever you are!