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 vally-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 some 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 captions, we've got to be crew
There is something for all of us here
There is big work to do and there is lesser to do
And the task we must do is the near

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