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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poet's Biography First Line: If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill Last Line: 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 little 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've 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 task 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! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FATHER'S PRAYER by DOUGLAS MALLOCH A PINE TREE AIN'T A MAPLE by DOUGLAS MALLOCH A ROSE FROM MOTHER'S GARDEN by DOUGLAS MALLOCH A WOMAN'S FACE AT THE WINDOW by DOUGLAS MALLOCH BRING UP THE ELEPHANTS by DOUGLAS MALLOCH CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN by DOUGLAS MALLOCH COME ALONG, YOU SPRING by DOUGLAS MALLOCH |
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