Epigrams Inspired by the Inscriptions in the Library of Congress - II (2009)

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“Books must follow sciences and not sciences books.”

When books were rated by science’s grade, discoveries were always made;
Whenever science fell to books, perchance the books were writ by crooks.


    7
“How charming is divine philosophy.”

The world of things must pass away, the air, the land, the sea;
Naught shall remain but those who wed divine philosophy.


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“Reading maketh a full man,
Conference a ready man,
And writing an exact man.”

Though listening is our wisdom’s start, and conference matures the mind;
Though reading overflows the heart, in writing at last our selves we find.


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“No painter ever set on canvas all the glorious vision he conceived.”

Though eyes see not the colorless source of colour’s illimitable light,
The mind discerns in myriad hues a single, iridescent white.


    10
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

Knowledge is a brazen maid, who calls to us with no demands;
But Wisdom is a lady coy, attracted not by unworked hands.