Precautionary Tales for Grandparents by James Muirden
Author:James Muirden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2012-01-24T00:00:00+00:00
LORD CALVIN
Lord Calvin thought the Bishops should not sit
On working groups that re-wrote Holy Writ.
The Bible sanctioned by the first King James
Sublimely justified its noble aims,
Giving the Word in words that thrilled the ears.
It had done so for some three hundred years!
How gross, to pander to the modern fashion
For so-called clarity instead of passion!
How can we clarify the Most Divine?
Is He revealed in the Written Line?
No, no! To seek him, tread the Lakeland hills â
Observe him in a clump of daffodils
Or in the sunrise breaking through the mist
(Lord Calvin was, youâll guess, a pantheist).
When a committee struggles to convey
What they suppose the Scribe had meant to say,
Out of the window goes the hallowed verse,
And we are left with gibberish â or worse!
Before this licensed meddling occurred,
John wrote âIn the beginning was the Wordâ,
Which they improved to âWhen all things began,
The Word already was.â Laugh if you can,
Howl if you must, at such a travesty;
But thatâs how John starts in the NEB
(New English Bible, 1961).
On reading this and other things theyâd done,
Lord Calvin to his Library retired,
Drafted his Epitaph, and then expired.
âDear Lord,â it ran, âwhat I had hoped to do
Was come to Thee; now I must come to You.â
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