<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115122" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thoughts in a library</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Speak low---tread softly through these halls;<br> Here genius lives enshrined,---<br> Here reign, in silent majesty,<br> The monarchs of the mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A mighty spirit-host they come,<br> From every age and clime;<br> Above the buried wrecks of years,<br> They breast the tide of Time.<br> And in their presence-chamber here,<br> They hold their regal state,<br> And round them throng a noble train,<br> The gifted and the great.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Oh, child of Earth! when round thy path<br> The storms of life arise,<br> And when thy brothers pass thee by,<br> With stern, unloving eyes,---</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Here shall the Poets chant for thee<br> Their sweetest, loftiest lays;<br> And Prophets wait to guide thy steps<br> In wisdom's pleasant ways.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Come, with these God-anointed kings,<br> Be thou companion here;<br> And in the mighty realm of mind,<br> Thou shalt go forth a peer!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115122" data-title="Thoughts in a library de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="Speak low---tread softly through these halls;/ Here genius lives enshrined,---/ Here reign, in silent majesty,/ The monarchs of the mind./ A mighty spirit-host they come,/ From every age and clime;/ Above the buried wrecks of years,/ They brea..."></div> </div> </div>

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