THE TEACHER.
Reading edition
By Leslie Pinckney Hill.
Lord, who am I to teach the way
To little children day by day,
So prone myself to go astray?
I teach them Knowledge, but I know
How faint they flicker, and how low
The candles of my knowledge glow.
I teach them Power to will and do,
But only now to learn anew
My own great weakness through and through.
I teach them Love for all mankind
And all God’s creatures; but I find
My love comes lagging still behind.
Lord, if their guide I still must be,
O let the little children see
The teacher leaning hard on thee!
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