Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest… - William Drummond of Hawthornden

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Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

William Drummond of Hawthornden

literature endure books outlast

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William Drummond of Hawthornden (13 December 1585 – 4 December 1649) was a Scottish poet.

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Phœbus, arise!
And paint the sable skies
With azure, white, and red.

This is the morn should bring unto this grove
My love, to hear and recompense my love.

God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.
I doubted of this saw, till on a day
I westward spied great Edinburgh’s Saint Gyles.

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. - William Drummond of Hawthornden

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