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