The purse they lent and left me high and dry.

So I came back and learned the barber's trade,

And here I am. But when I save enough

I mean to start a little magazine

To show what is the matter. Do you know?

It's something on the shelf—not booze or jam:

It's that old bible, precious family bible,

That record of the Hebrew thought and life—

That book that takes a course of years to study,

Requires Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek and Coptic