ON HEARING A FRIEND SAY,
"I WISH YOU'D MEND MY BIBLE FOR ME"
I mend your Bible? What a thought!
As if your Bible Needed ought
To mend or make it better;
Or such a sinful worm as I
Could add unto divinity,
Inspired in word and letter!
I mend your Bible? What a task!
For a believer, too, to ask,
And of a sinful creature!
Since heaven and earth must both decay,
But not one tittle pass away
From God’s most holy Scriptures.
I mend your Bible? No, not I!
Nor holy angels, did they try;
Yea, could its Author do it?
So perfect is His Word of grace,
Wherein Himself to us displays,
That none can add unto it.
Who dares this holy Book to mend,
Must first mend God, beloved friend;
Then who’s that bold pretender?
Not I; for, though I should replace
Some leaves in that blest Book of grace,
I am no Bible mender.W.H. Colyer.