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GOING INTO THE HILLS TO TEACH

A Poem

by Austin Mitchell

The hills beckoned me to teach

A young lad just out of high school

Yes the opportunity to teach

At a very needy school

So here I was an assistant teacher

Thrown before dozens of students

They said I was too young to be a teacher

I was a few years older than most of my students

I taught them everything I knew

And felt I did a good job

Those students told me so, so I knew

That I had done a good job

They still call me teacher

Because they know that I was a good teacher