Like Daddy
I took my little laddie once,
And drew him to my knee –
And whispered to my little lad,
“Do you want to be like me?”
“Like Daddy,” said my little lad,
“I’.m gonna be like be like you.”
I bowed my head in humbleness,
And suddenly I knew.
If my small boy would be like me,
There is one thing I must do –
The steps I take, the things I say
Had better all ring true.
As in the night I lay awake
While my wee lad slept on –
His words re-echoed through my mind
Like some old haunting song.
“Like Daddy,” that the thought we need,
To help us keep us straight –
Upon the way we fathers walk
Depends our children’s fate.
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