Librarians Are Those We Trust with Treasures

Music: Prelude in B Major.
By Dimitri Shostakovich.  Sequenced by J. Marques
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Librarians are those we trust with treasures
Incalculable, for they are of the mind,
Bringing to our brief years greater pleasures,
Rage for rage, than any other kind.
All we are and have is in their keeping,
Ready to be rendered into self,
Irreducibly our inner meaning
Alive as well-wrought words upon a shelf.
No sable is so soft, or diamond hard;
Still, for everything else, there's MasterCard.

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