Choisest authors

Hung round with little pictures it should be

For these are trifles which I love to see

Near the fireside close fitted in the wall

I'de have a nice made cubboard not too small

Each shelf in breadth so uniformly pland

That books in eightvo size or more might stand

For this one use Id have the cubboard made

Where none but choisest authors should be laid

Such as Dermody Scott Macniel & Burn

With rural Bloomfield Templeman & Hurn

These are the authors that can boast the power

Of giving raptures in a leisure hour

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Image?  Part of my John Clare library