Strolling in the British Museum one day in London,
I paid silent homage to the manuscripts.
Shakespeare mortgaging his house for sixty pounds;
Kings acknowledging messages;
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Life and death. Seeing the works of mankind on earth. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
Thank you for your comment, dear Poet Edward Kofi Louis. It is both a delight and an honour to have a fellow Member of PH reading and sensitively responding to some lines I posted in PH recently. As I said, my visit to the British Museum was in the early 1970's. Glad I can still recall memories like this and find words which communicate feelings with one like you. Best wishes, AM
museum thoughts of immortality