The

With quills plucked from the ordinary goose,

While critics write their sharp incisive lines

With quills snatched from the fretful porcupines.

AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM

If Bacon wrote those grand inspiring lines

If

At which alternately man weeps and laughs,

Who was it penned those chirographic vines

We know these times as Shakespeare’s autographs?

THE BIBLIOPHILE’S THREAT

If some one does not speedily indite

If

A volume that is worthy of my shelf,

I’ll have to buy materials and write

A novel and some poetry myself.

MY TREASURES

My library o’erflows with treasures rare:

My

Of “Dickens’ firsts,” a full, unbroken set;

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