Lawrence Hall
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               We Too Are Authors of All the Books We Have Read

I still read books just as I did when young
With pen in hand (no longer pipe in mouth)
For underlinings, arrows, and marginal notes
Mapping out the adventures as I go along

And we give God thanks for

Writers and artists and craftsman with clever hands
Uncredited loggers and tanners of hides
Makers of glue and thread and blocking machines
And the white-capped printer with inky hands

Books have many authors, and the Author of All
Blesses them and us with their waves of words