Funeral Poems For Teachers: "My Last Assembly"

MY LAST ASSEMBLY

If this life has taught me anything

It's that I've been a student all my days

Learning from each interaction

Along the scholastic way

Now a place in the open universe awaits, and

The answer to the last question of the exam hall

Are my views on Religious Education

Still worth anything at all

So farewell to you and my verbosity

I now end with one of Henry Adams's jots

'A teacher affects eternity

He/She can never tell where his/her influence stops'

Michael Ashby

Reference:

Henry Adams 1838-1918