Were you there, Sir William, dear
With King James in holy writ?
Did you sign with 'shake' and 'spear'
Sign your name to sacred script?
Some say, 'It's coincidence!
Adding with an epithet,
'He's a fraud! Nor did he pen
'Romeo and Juliet! '
Scoffers scoff, but I believe
He was there with good King James
And to prove it, why not leave
A signature? He signed his name.
It's no surprise he chose the Psalms
And the number of his years-
Forty-six. O man of poems,
Hidden in this song of fears
Crafting music with his pen,
English words for Hebrew song,
Working magic yet again
Helping others sing along:
God delivers from the flood
He will make all wars to cease
Be still! Know that He is God
Rivers flow from Him in peace
First, he signed but half his name,
Forty-sixth word from the start:
Though the earth 'shake' God's the same;
He will never, ever part
Then he signed the other half,
Forty-six words from the end:
Break the 'spear' unleash your wrath
God, remember me, your friend
Scoffers, go on, have your say
Grab the world, give it a shake
Take from Shakespeare every play
Say you think that he's a fake
I will thus take up my spear,
Dipped in ink, and here proclaim:
William Shakespeare wrote 'Shakespeare'
And the Bible of King James
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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