But marvellous, mystical, magical lore
I have learn’d from the sages, and seers of yore;
And I think I can furnish just the commodity,
Apex of learning, and quaintness, and oddity.
In a chapel built by the old Chaldees,
I’ll show you the cream of Libraries,
Hidden away in the bowels of earth
Since long before Creation’s birth;
And all the volumes hidden there,
Learnèd, curious, quaint, and rare,