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If Wisdom Accrues With Books
If wisdom, so revered, accrue with books,
Then our leaders should be vastly nourished;
Their vast towers parade books of giant looks,
And numberless pages have they relished;
If wisdom arrives with foreign trips,
Then by reason of the lands their boots touch,
Like roses and dew, drops should clad their lips
And for this ravaged soil compel their watch
Earthly books only breed earthly knowledge;
Knowing without understand'ng is ill-luck,
For wisdom comes as understand'ng fledge;
Only on God's inspired Word does such stuck;
Crude spirit lives in man, only God's breaths
Accord him rich wisdom of a noble birth.
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Ikenna Emmanuel Bertrand
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