We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book And calculating profits - so much help By so much rending. It is rather when We gloriously forget … - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book
And calculating profits - so much help
By so much rending. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth -
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.