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We All Dream of
Our Own Library Someday
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything
you need.
-attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ad Familiares,
Letter IV to Varro
We all dream of our own library someday
Shelf after shelf of finely bound editions
An oak-paneled room with a stone fireplace
And French windows that open to the sea
We all dream of our own library someday
A handsome wooden table instead of a desk
Lamplight and candlelight that fall upon
The open pages of a Russian poet
We all dream of our own library someday -
For now, a back-pack paperback must do
(My dream library is in a wood or a wooded park, but “sea” set itself into place and refused to move. Perhaps I saw your dream library for a moment.)
