Shut Not Your Doors
Shut not your doors to me, proud libraries,
For that which was lacking on all your well-fill’d shelves,
yet needed most, I bring;
Forth from the army, the war emerging--a book I have made,
The words of my book nothing--the drift of it everything;
A book separate, not link’d with the rest, nor felt by the
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But you, ye untold latencies, will thrill to every page;