Good books are friendly things to own.
If you are busy they will wait.
They will not call you on the phone
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My books and I are good old pals:
My laughing books are gay,
Just suited for my merry moods
When I am wont to play.
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I HOLD the finest picture-books
Are woods an' fields an' runnin' brooks;
An' when the month o' May has done
Her paintin', an' the mornin' sun
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I care not who the man may be,
Nor how his tasks may fret him,
Nor where he fares, nor how his cares
And troubles may beset him,
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