A Positive Poem

Here is that poem again. I saw it many years ago in a book I picked up from some second hand
bookshop.
I think it is lovely and very positive. It is for those times when you compare yourself to others and don't think you measure up.

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 we 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!
Douglas Malloch.