Girl Scouting is a Candle

(author unknown)

Girl Scouting is a candle that will light you on your way.
It's trying on your honor and helping every day.

Exploring worlds around you and looking wider still
Pitching tents out in the woods and hiking up a hill.

Guitars and voices blended under a majestic sky
Loving those around you; friendships that never die.

The meaning in a moment, in a smile or in a tear
Makes you a little taller in each Girl Scouting year.

A promise to your God and to your country, too
Makes you a part of the world and the world a part of you.

It's something that you carry wherever you may go
A secret deep inside you that only Girl Scouts ever know.

But it's the kind of secret the world wants you to show
You shouldn't hide all the happiness; you can't hide all the glow.

Your "candle" glows so brightly, it shines externally.
Make it shine on everyone; that's the way the world should be.