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.
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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"Hear, Ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not the law.
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preseve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee."
Proverbs 4:1-6, KJ
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"Train up a child in the way he should go:
and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Proverbs 22:6, KJ
  
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