Do books, like people, have the right to be safe from persecution? That is the question. If the answer is 'No', where should we draw the line? And who should be responsible for drawing it?
The Right of Books to be Safe
Macklin's Bible in VII volumes
Butler's Hudibras
F X Kraus's Dante
Douce's Illustrations of Shakspeare
Pinelli's Costumi Antichi
Napoleon III's Histoire de Jules Cesar
Lasserre's Notre-Dame de Lourdes
Benson's Confessions of a Convert
Porson's Tracts and Criticisms
Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy
Pashley's Travels in Crete
Keppel Craven's Excursions in the Abruzzi
J P Uz's Poetische Werke
Gleig's Life of Thomas Munro
and Merejowsky's L'Antechrist
are standing in rows
in wire mesh boxes.
We note the imprints
on their spines.
Their ancient secrets
have escaped us.
Homer and Cato
look on with alarm.
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