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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIKE WASHINGTON, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: We cannot all be washingtons
Last Line: They do their best when they are smaller
Subject(s): "presidents, United States;washington, George (1732-1799);
First Line: We cannot all be washingtons
Last Line: They do their best when they are smaller
Subject(s): "presidents, United States;washington, George (1732-1799);
WE cannot all be Washingtons,
And have our birthdays celebrated;
But we can love the things he loved,
And we can hate the things he hated.
He loved the truth, he hated lies,
He minded what his mother taught him,
And every day he tried to do
The simple duties that it brought him.
Perhaps the reason little folks
Are sometimes great when they grow taller,
Is just because, like Washington,
They do their best when they are smaller.
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