The Way We Were

Happy Father's Day from the bookshop

"When others fail him, the wise man looks

To the sure companionship of books."

~Old Friends

~ Andrew Lang [1844 - 1912] Scots poet, novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature.

"One gift the fairies gave me:  (three
They commonly bestowed of yore)
The love of books, the golden key
That opens the enchanted door."

~Ballade of the Bookworm. Stanza 2