Poem: Book Borrower
(a couple of similar opinions about people who borrow books)
"Book Borrower" by Robert Service (1874-1958)
I am a mild man, you'll agree,
Or when a chap a book I lend,
But worst of all I hate those crooks
My books are tendrils of myself
But red my rage is,
When folks who borrow books from meTurn down their pages.
Or when a chap a book I lend,
And find he's loaned it
Without permission to a friendAs if he owned it.
But worst of all I hate those crooks
(May hell-fires burn them!)
Who beg the loan of cherished booksAnd don't return them.
My books are tendrils of myself
No shears can sever . . .
May he who rapes one from its shelfBe damned forever.
"Book Loaner" by Dick Emmons
The book I lent a year ago
Is now of some concern;
I fear it's reached a new plateau—The point of no return.
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