A precious - mouldering pleasure - 'tis - To meet an Antique Book - In just the Dress his Century wore - A privilege - I think - His venerable Hand to take - And warming in our own - A passage back - or two - to make - To Times when he - was young -
His quaint opinions - to inspect - His thought to ascertain On Them[e]s concern our mutual mind - The Literature of Man -
What interested Scholars - most - What Competitions ran - When Plato - was a Certainty - And Sophocles - a Man -
When Sappho - was a living Girl - And Beatrice wore The Gown that Dante - deified - Facts Centuries before
He traverses - familiar - As One should come to Town - And tell you all your Dreams - were true - He lived - where Dreams were born -
His presence is Enchantment - You beg him not to go - Old Volume shake their Vellum Heads And tantalize - just so.
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