Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SOMETHING IN BOOKS', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Will you have something in books to-day?
Last Line: Daytime and nighttime, till living shall end
Subject(s): Books


"Will you have something in books to-day?"
So the young woman prattled away,
Using her salesman lingo free,
Just as if books were pounds of tea.

That is the way the business is run.
Books by the thousand, books by the ton,
Books by the measure of mason or cook.
And the bigger the pile, the bigger the book.

"Something in books?" Yes, Miss Flippancy, yes;
Something your big store does not possess.
Give me a book that was born of the heart.
Free from the stains of the bank and the
mart.

Give me a book that is known of the trees.
Comrade of clouds and at home with the bees;
Give me a book I shall have as a friend.
Daytime and nighttime, till living shall end.






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