Leadership is followership

A careful man, I ought to be;
A little fellow follows me.
I do not dare to go astray
For fear he'll go the self-same way.

I can not once escape his eyes,
Whatever he sees me do he tries.
Like me, he says, he's going to be,
That little chap that follows me.

He thinks that I am good and fine;
Believes in every work of mine.
The bad in me he must not see;
My life to him must an example be.

I must remember, as I go
Through summer's sun and winter's snow,
I'm building for the years to be,
For that little chap that follows me.