IN THE ARTS FOR 200 |
"In the Library" was written by Anne C.L. Botts, and the first
few stanzas are as follows:
Speak low - tread softly through these
halls,
Here genius lives enshrined,
Here reign, in silent
majesty,
The monarchs of the mind.
A mighty spirit-host,
they come
From every age and clime,
Above the buried wrecks of
years
The breast the tide of time.
And in their
presence-chamber here,
They hold their regal state,
And round
them throng a noble train,
The gifted and the great.