The Teacher

Leslie Pickney 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 know to learn anew

My own great weakness through and through.

 

I teach them LOVE for all mankins

And all God’s ceatures, but I find

My love comes lagging far behind.

 

Lord, if their guide I still must be,

Oh, let the little children see

The teacher leaning hard on Thee.