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But as for me, the smell of books
Is perhaps enough, my bride
The gracious literature
Who does not threaten to leave
Or say I do not make enough gold
The holy emblem of this art
Whose pen is its own reward
A kind of artistic altruism
That plunges itself without restraint
On a canvas, spelling “freedom”
Over and over until
My heart might warm divinity
From the cold world’s touch
But ah, the libraries are lonely places
And the authors must fight
Lofty ghosts, that swim in the brain
For to write is to sacrifice, I know
It well, so find delight, go
In cheaper things, more easy investments
For this is a passion not for the meek
And this is a love that is not
As fickle as the illiterate barbarians out there.