Saturday, April 3, 2010
On The Gift Of A Book To A Child Comments
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Child! do not throw this book about!
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
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Ramesh T A
31 July 2015
Nice poem of Hilaire Belloc to divert the attention of a child from tearing a book to greater use of hands for living better in the world!
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7/19/2025 4:31:55 AM # 1.0.0
Finally, someone who loves books as much as I do, and expressed it in the perfect-sized poem. For me, a poem of 16 lines is the ideal size, though I admit that many of mine are much shorter than that. My latest, The Best Poem Ever, has exactly sixteen lines.