1 Verily! Ye Bible is Ye Foundation Scripture of Britishness: and Lo! the Authorized Version is its Jericho Jubilee trumpet of ram's horn.

2 Without Bible stories the ignorant wander in darkness in galleries, literature, proverbs and the mansions of nationhood: and the enlightenment is not with them.

3 The little children still rise up to play with Noah's Ark: the animals go in two by two, the Elephant and the Kangaroo, and, these days, the Velociraptor and the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Selah.

4 He that wotteth not the Burning Bush, the Widow's Mite, Eve and the subtil serpent, and the Loaves and Fishes, he wandereth in eternal night, and the Truth is not in him: he is as an alien Jebusite and an Amalekite in his native land.

5 For the Bible stories were Englished by Choice and Master Scribes: such as Wycliffe, Coverdale and William Tyndale, who spake, Yea verily! and prophesied: “I will cause the boy that driveth the plough in England to know more of the Scriptures than the Pope himself.” Selah.

6 The Apocrypha relateth that Will Shakespeare helped to render the Authorized Version: its cymbals and symbols can be heard sounding gold in the prose of writers, whether they be Christian or no, from Bunyan to T.F. Powys.

7 David and Goliath, the Prodigal Son, Job, Jonathan and Jonah, Jacob and Esau, while Shepherds washed: Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh were the only two who ever got through to the Land of Milk and Honey.

8 Yea: for Bible Stories are the bread and flesh of an goodly heritage: that hath fallen to us Angles and Angels in a fair ground. Selah.