Be The Best Of Whatever You Are

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Author: Douglas Malloch
Source: American English World Tianzeyuan

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---but be
The happiest grass by the road.
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!



請點擊欣賞：做最好的自己
作者：道格拉斯·麥洛克
來源：美語世界 天澤園

如果你當不成山巔的一棵勁鬆,
就做山穀裏的小樹吧---但務必
做溪流邊最棒的一棵小樹;
當不了樹就做一叢灌木,
當不成灌木還可以做小草---但務必
做路邊最快樂的一株小草.
如果你不是大梭魚就做一尾鱸魚吧,
但要做湖裏最活潑的小鱸魚!

我們不能都做船長,必須有人當船員,
可每個人都有自己的事兒,
有的事情大,有的事情小,
而你要完成的任務就 近在咫尺.

如果你不能做大道就做一條小徑,
若是不能做太陽就做星星;
決定成敗的不是你的大小---
隻要你做最好的自己!

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Some memorable Malloch quotes:

"Men look to the East for the dawning things,
For the light of a raising sun;
But they look to the West, to the crimson West,
For the things that are done, are done."
from "East And West".

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Douglas Malloch (1877 - 1938)

Douglas Malloch was an American poet, short story writer, and associate editor of American Lumberman magazine. He was very popular on the lecture circuit doing public readings of his stories and poems.

Malloch's name became a familiar one at the dawn of the 20th century to many thousands of men who ranged the forests and felled the trees. As reviewers wrote, "Malloch’s philosophy is the philosophy of contentment." "He sings of the open, of hard work, of exposure, of rough living and rough loving. It is verse which belongs to the strong-armed school; a healthy antidote to the softening tendencies which creep in with an age that loves luxury too well."

He is noted for writing The Round River Drive, which was only the second appearance in print of Paul Bunyan. Besides poetry of the woods, he was commissioned to write a Michigan State Song. His second wife, Helen Miller Malloch, was a newswoman who gained fame in her own right as founder of the National Association of Presswomen.(Source: Internet)

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英語散文: Be the best of whatever you are

來源: [ 美語世界 ] 天澤園 於 09-05-29 18:43:46

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