Is not a trivial thing,

Its influence lives, grows and expands

Till harvest it shall bring.

No task, to human hands assigned,

Excels in force and weight

The grave responsibilities

Of those who educate.

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Let knowledge of the sciences,

Skill in didactic art,

Power in the impulse of the soul

A knowledge to impart,

A love for God and human kind,

Forgetfulness of self,

A heart devoted to the cause

More than to worldly pelf,

Be given as a heritage

To those who fain would teach,

Then living truth shall flourish,

And all mankind shall reach.

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