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This is bad enough
/ So please …
/
/ Don’t give me
/ gobbledegook.
/
/ Don’t give me
/ pages and dense pages
/ and
/ “this leaflet aims to explain ……
This is bad enough
/ So please …
/
/ Don’t give me
/ gobbledegook.
/
/ Don’t give me
/ pages and dense pages
/ and
/ “this leaflet aims to explain ……
Public libraries / were cherished like Pallas Athene’s temples, / which, for us, in effect, they were.
Ye wha are fain to hae your name
/ Wrote in the bonny book of fame,
/ Let merit nae pretension claim
/ …
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/ Dear Quintus Horatius Flaccus,
/ may I have a poem?
/ We run this little magazine.
/ It would be a good advertisement
/ for your books.
/ Our…
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