No Frigate Like a Book

No Frigate Like a Book - Celebrating Libraries Remember Day Illustrations on Night Cafe https://creator.nightcafe.studio/collection/l2HS66ofiYEpv7HVKDRZ Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/ZKRoGiKYUOg Watch on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@artelisabeth/video/7413387082665594143 A precious Mouldering A precious — mouldering pleasure — 'tis — To meet an Antique Book — In just the Dress his Century wore — A privilege — I think — His venerable Hand to take — And warming in our own — A passage back — or two — to make — To Times when he — was young — There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human Soul – His quaint opinions — to inspect — His thought to ascertain On Themes concern our mutual mind — The Literature of Man — What interested Scholars — most — What Competitions ran — When Plato — was a Certainty — And Sophocles — a Man — There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human Soul – When Sappho — was a living Girl — And Beatrice wore The Gown that Dante — deified — Facts Centuries before He traverses — familiar — As One should come to Town — And tell you all your Dreams — were true — He lived — where Dreams were born — There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human Soul – His presence is Enchantment — You beg him not to go — Old Volume shake their Vellum Heads And tantalize — just so — There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human Soul –