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Robert W Service - My Hundred Books
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A thousand books my library
          Contains;
And all are primed, it seems to me
          With brains.
Mine are so few I scratch in thought
          My head;
For just a hundred of the lot
          I`ve read.

A hundred books, but of the best,
          I can
With wisdom savour and digest
          And scan.
Yet when afar from kin and kith
          In nooks
Of quietness I`m happy with
          Sweet books.

So as nine hundred at me stare
          In vain,
My lack I`m wistfully aware
          Of brain;
Yet as my leave of living ends,
          With looks
Of love I view a hundred friends,
          My books.
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