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The Family
Bible
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Old Brother Higgins
built a shelf
for the family
bible to rest itself
lest a sticky
finger or grimy thumb
might injure the
delicate pages some.
He cautioned his
children to touch it not
and it rested
there with never a blot
though the Higgins
tribe were a troublesome lot.
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His neighbor,
Miggins, built a shelf
"Come children,"
he said, "and help yourself."
His book is old
and ragged and worn,
with some of the
choicest pages torn,
where children
have fingered and thumbed and read.
But of the Miggins
tribe I've heard it said,
each carries a
bible in his head.
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