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If I could fly like a bird, I would.
I'd hop like a toad, too, if I could.
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I'd swish like a snake,
or a fish in a lake.
That is, if I could, I would.
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I'd be a river that flows to the sea,
or a far-shining star in the sky.
I'd like to be powerful
once in a while
like a strong wind blowing by...
and I would, if I could. I'd try.
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It would sometimes be fun to be more than one- like a hive of busy bees...
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or a hill full of ants,
or a garden of plants.
Oh, wouldn't it?
Wouldn't it be?
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I'd be a song that someone would sing,
or I'd be a bell that someone could ring...
or a cloud in the sky,
or a mountain so high-
if I could, I'd be everything!
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I'd grow from a polliwog into a frog...
from a worm to a butterfly...
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I'd live like a lizard under a log
and eat bugs, if I could. I'd try.
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I'd like to feel big as an elephant,
or small as the tiniest gnat-
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or fat like a walrus,
or sleek like a seal,
or soft like a kitten-cat.
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I'd like to be able to spin a web
or live in a burrow deep...
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I'd even crawl on the ocean floor,
or nest on a mountain steep.
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Oh, there's lots of things that I would be...if I could. But I can't, and it's plain to see that the world is just as it ought to be.
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It's fun to think about all those things, about flying and hopping and bells that ring...but I know who I am, and that's who I'll be, and I'm very glad that I'm just me!
