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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