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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537486" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>De Libris</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">True — there are books and books. There’s Gray,<br>For instance, and there’s Bacon;<br>There’s Longfellow, and Monstrelet,<br>And also Colton’s “ Lacon,”<br>With “Laws of Whist” and those • of Libel,<br>And Euclid, and the Mormon Bible.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And some are dear as friends, and some<br>We keep because we need’them;<br>And some we ward from worm and thumb,<br>And love too well to read them.<br>My own are poor, and mostly new,<br>But I’ve an Elzevir or two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That as a gift is prized, the next<br>For trouble in the finding;<br>This Aldine for its early text,<br>That Plantin for the binding;<br>This sorry Herrick hides a flower,<br>The record of one perfect hour.<br>But whether it be worth or looks<br>We gently love or strongly,<br>Such virtue doth reside in books<br>We scarce can love them wrongly;<br>To sages an eternal school,<br>A hobby (harmless) to the fool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor altogether fool is he<br>Who orders, free from doubt,<br>Those books which “no good library<br>Should ever be without,”<br>And blandly locks the well-glazed door<br>On tomes that issue never more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Less may we scorn his cases grand,<br>Where safely, surely linger<br>Fair virgin fields of type, unscanned<br>And innocent of finger.<br>There rest, preserved from dust accurst,<br>The first editions — and the worst.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And least of all should we that write<br>With easy jest deride them<br>Who hope to leave when “lost to sight”<br>The best of us inside them,<br>Dear shrines! where many a scribbler’s name<br>Has lasted — longer than his fame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cosmo+Monkhouse">William Cosmo Monkhouse</a><div class=q>
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For instance, and there’s Bacon;
There’s Longfellow, and Monstrelet,
And also Colton’s “ Lacon,”
With “Laws of Whist” and those • of Libel,
And Euclid, and the Mormon Bible.

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