 With contentment on her features and a date-stamp in her hand. As they feed beasts at the circus to appease their hungering rage, So she throws this man a poet and she drops that man a sage; And her wild beasts growl in fury when they do not like her...  The Song of the Library Staff - Page 10by Sam Walter Foss - 1906 - 14 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Library Association - Library administration - 1905 - 586 pages
...she leads 'em and beguiles And to look at her 1s culture, and to know her 1s . em w1th sweet gu1le, And wounds 'em with her two-cent fine and heals 'em with her smile. See the Children's gay Librarian. Oh, what boisterous Oh, the gleesome Desk Attendant — who shall... | |
 | Sam Walter Foss - American poetry - 1907 - 214 pages
...out this afternoon but thirty minutes old; — Calm and cool amid the tumult see the Desk Attendant stand With contentment on her features and a date-stamp...mightier bard to sing it — 'tis a theme too big for me ! Now, my Muse, prepare for business. Plume your wings for loftier flight Through the circumambient... | |
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