The Story of the Bible
THE Story of the Bible
Had six hundred pages
And three hundred illustrations.
At eight cents a dozen
It must have taken twenty-five dozen eggs
To buy it.
Had six hundred pages
And three hundred illustrations.
At eight cents a dozen
It must have taken twenty-five dozen eggs
To buy it.
On summer afternoons
When Mother drove the sewing machine so
hard
She ran up dinner and supper in a single
seam,
I read thirty pages at a sitting,
Then penned in the story with a turned-down
page,
To tell to Father at night with gestures.
When Mother drove the sewing machine so
hard
She ran up dinner and supper in a single
seam,
I read thirty pages at a sitting,
Then penned in the story with a turned-down
page,
To tell to Father at night with gestures.
I remember best the picture of Adam, bare-
naked, driven from the Garden to bear
his sin alone,
For Mother had carefully rubbed out shame-
less Eve —
Carefully, with a wet cloth, in order not
to mar the page.
naked, driven from the Garden to bear
his sin alone,
For Mother had carefully rubbed out shame-
less Eve —
Carefully, with a wet cloth, in order not
to mar the page.