God's Library / James Lewis Milligan

The Bookworm, by Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885), circa 1850. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

God's Library  (1910)  by James Lewis Milligan

from Songs in Time's Despite, 1910

God's Library

God has a library,
     Wondrous and vast,
Where books are stored on the
     Shelves of the Past:

Tragedies, comedies,
     Dramas of yore,
Dead worlds' long histories –
     Infinite lore!

God has his favourite
     Volumes, and these
Bound in white vellum are –
     Biographies.

See also

• Other poems by Milligan

[Poem is in the public domain in the United States and Canada]

This poem is in the public domain