If above two weeks you've left me,
Just two cents a day I'll take,
And, unless my mind's bereft me,
Payment you must straightway make.
Treat your books as if to-morrow,
Gabriel's trump would surely sound,
And all scribbling, to your sorrow,
'Gainst your credit would be found.
Therefore tear not,
Spot and wear not
All these books so neatly bound.
These few simple rules abiding,
We shall always on you smile:
There will be no room for chiding,
No one's temper will you rile.
And when Heaven's golden portals
For you on their hinges turn,
With the books for all immortals,
There will be no rules to learn.
Therefore heed them,
Often read them,
Lest your future weal you spurn.
Titles of Books Asked for by written Slips in a Popular Library.
- Aristopholus translated by Buckley.
- Alfreri Tragedus.
- Bertall Lavie Hors De Ches Soi.
- Cooke M. C. M. A. L. L. D. their nature and uses. Edited by Rev. J. M. Berkeley M. A. F. R. S. (Fungi.)
- Caralus Note Book (A Cavalier's).
- Gobden Club-Essays.
- Specie the origin of Darwin.
- An Epistropal Prayer Book.
Blunders in Cataloguing.
- Gasparin. The uprising of a great many people.
- Hughes, Tom. The scouring of the White House.
- Mayhew. The pheasant boy.
- Wind in the lower animals (Mind.)