I Want to Be Like A Father (Litany)

I want to be like

Homer

The father of poets

I want to be like

Geoffrey Chaucer

The father of English Poetry

I want to be like

Plutarch

The father of Biography

I want to be like

Johan Sebastian Bach

The father of Modern Music

I want to be like

Herodotus

The father of History

I want to be like

Copernicus

The father of Modern Astronomy

I want to be like

Francis Bacon

The father of Experimental Philosophy

I want to be like

The father of Medicine

Hippocrates

I want to be like

The father of Moral Philosophy

Thomas Aquinas

I want to be like

The father of the science of Political Economy

Adam Smith

I want to be like

One who is not idle

A Christian spreading God’s words

I want to be like John Biddle

The father of Unitarianism

I want to be like

The person I say

To be a famous person

I want to be like

John Ray

The father of Natural History

I want to be like

The person I may

Want to be in the next life

I want to be like

Antoine Lavoisier

The father of Modern Chemistry

And I want to be like

The person I know

To lead me with words

I want to be like

Giovanni Boccaccio

The father of Novel writing