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GRANDMA'S BIBLE, by                    
First Line: Grandma's bible is old and worn
Last Line: Her influence and love of long ago.
Subject(s): Bible; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


Grandma's Bible is old and worn,
Page after page is yellowed and torn.
Every torn page she loved so well,
What a story they all could tell

Of days and nights spent in her hand,
Reading things she did not understand,
But believing unquestioned every word
As the sweetest stories she ever heard.

Nothing to tell from whence it came,
Nothing, but her own dear, faded name;
"Fanny Robinson" can still be seen,
"Born January 24, 1814."

Ninety times she read it through,
Straight through, and every time new
With meaning, while at her knee
Stood her children, then carefree,

One after another, learning there
The lessons she had read with care;
They never loved it as much as she,
The greatest of all books to her and to me.

For now it is mine; all old and torn,
Dilapidated, pages missing and worn.
But if I knew well all it still holds,
What a world of meaning it would unfold.

Ninety times The Book she read,
Once for each year of her life, she said.
A long life of labor and sacrifice,
"St. Fanny" they called her, "pearls without price."

Grandma's Bible inspiration be
To poor, unhappy, struggling me.
Let Grandma's thumb-worn Bible show
Her influence and love of long ago.





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