Of Books
Read all the Books on every Shelf,
But do your Thinking for yourself.
A BOOK , though mainly as the Writer makes it,
Is also largely as the Reader takes it.
The Book's ill writ that needs, whoever penned it,
Another Book to make you Comprehend it.
Y OU say that you have gone all through
The Book; but has it gone through you?
B OOKSHELVES are best no higher than your Head,
And Books should look as if they had been Read.
But do your Thinking for yourself.
A BOOK , though mainly as the Writer makes it,
Is also largely as the Reader takes it.
The Book's ill writ that needs, whoever penned it,
Another Book to make you Comprehend it.
Y OU say that you have gone all through
The Book; but has it gone through you?
B OOKSHELVES are best no higher than your Head,
And Books should look as if they had been Read.
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