The Living Book

by Charlotte Fiske Bates

This bears the seal of immortality,   For every soul that reads it feels the search Of answering thought, and thousands there may be Saying at once, “How straight that looks at me!”   Nor child nor fool it leaveth in the lurch; But, like the eyes that mark great Guido’s fame, It follows every one, as if by name.

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