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AUTOCRAT PROFESSOR POET	A
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AT A BOOKSTORE	B
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Anno Domini	C
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A CRAZY bookcase placed before	B
A low price dealer's open door	B
Therein arrayed in broken rows	D
A ragged crew of rhyme and prose	D
The homeless vagrants waifs and strays	E
Whose low estate this line betrays	E
Set forth the lesser birds to lime	F
YOUR CHOICE AMONG THESE BOORS DIME	F
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Ho dealer for its motto's sake	G
This scarecrow from the shelf I take	G
Three starveling volumes bound in one	H
Its covers warping in the sun	H
Methinks it hath a musty smell	I
I like its flavor none too well	I
But Yorick's brain was far from dull	J
Though Hamlet pah 'd and dropped his skull	J
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Why here comes rain The sky grows dark	K
Was that the roll of thunder Hark	K
The shop affords a safe retreat	L
A chair extends its welcome seat	L
The tradesman has a civil look	M
I 've paid impromptu for my book	M
The clouds portend a sudden shower	N
I 'll read my purchase for an hour	N
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What have I rescued from the shelf	O
A Boswell writing out himself	O
For though he changes dress and name	P
The man beneath is still the same	P
Laughing or sad by fits and starts	Q
One actor in a dozen parts	Q
And whatsoe'er the mask may be	C
The voice assures us This is he	C
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I say not this to cry him down	R
I find my Shakespeare in his clown	R
His rogues the selfsame parent own	S
Nay Satan talks in Milton's tone	S
Where'er the ocean inlet strays	E
The salt sea wave its source betrays	E
Where'er the queen of summer blows	D
She tells the zephyr 'I'm the rose '	-
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And his is not the playwright's page	T
His table does not ape the stage	T
What matter if the figures seen	U
Are only shadows on a screen	U
He finds in them his lurking thought	V
And on their lips the words he sought	V
Like one who sits before the keys	W
And plays a tune himself to please	W
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And was he noted in his day	X
Read flattered honored Who shall say	X
Poor wreck of time the wave has cast	Y
To find a peaceful shore at last	Y
Once glorying in thy gilded name	P
And freighted deep with hopes of fame	P
Thy leaf is moistened with a tear	Z
The first for many a long long year	A2
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For be it more or less of art	B2
That veils the lowliest human heart	B2
Where passion throbs where friendship glows	D
Where pity's tender tribute flows	D
Where love has lit its fragrant fire	N
And sorrow quenched its vain desire	N
For me the altar is divine	C2
Its flame its ashes all are mine	C2
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And thou my brother as I look	M
And see thee pictured in thy book	M
Thy years on every page confessed	D2
In shadows lengthening from the west	D2
Thy glance that wanders as it sought	V
Some freshly opening flower of thought	V
Thy hopeful nature light and free	C
I start to find myself in thee	C
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Come vagrant outcast wretch forlorn	E2
In leather jerkin stained and torn	E2
Whose talk has filled my idle hour	N
And made me half forget the shower	N
I'll do at least as much for you	F2
Your coat I'll patch your gilt renew	F2
Read you perhaps some other time	F
Not bad my bargain Price one dime	F

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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