Be Something

Be Something

Be something in this living age,
and prove your right to be
a light upon some darkened page,
a pilot on the sea.

Find out the place where you may stand,
Beneath some burden bow;
take up the task with willing hand,
be something, somwhere now.

Be something in this throbbing day
of busy hands and feet,
a spring beside some dusty way,
a shadow from the heat.

Be found upon the workman's row
go sow,go reap or plow;
bend to some task with heart and soul
be something, somewhere now.

Be something in this golden hour
with action running over;
add some momentum to its power
a voice unheard before.

Be not a king without a throne,
or crown to deck the brow;
serve with the throng, or serve alone
be something,somewhere now.

Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
To all the people you can
In all the ways you can
In all places you can
As long as ever you can