Seldom rich enough for its needs, it abhors waste.
Change and growth will soon supplant it.
Build it for use, not show; for now, not for ever:—
Tastefully, tactfully, thriftily, thoroughly.
To plan it, find an able librarian,
To construct it, get a skillful architect,
To control both, choose a wise committee.
These three, by patient study and debate,
Can satisfy taste without sacrificing use—
Achieving complete and felicitous success.