WHO
HATH A BOOK
Who Hath a book
Has friends at hand
And gold and gear
At his command.
And rich estates,
If he but look,
Are held by him
Who hath a book.
Who hath a book
Has but to read
And he may be
A king indeed.
His kingdom is
His inglenook;
All this is his
Who hath a book.
This
short and simple poem is by the American poet and humorist Wilber Dick Nesbit
(1871-1927). It is any inspirational poem which highlights the advantages of
having a proper book to be read for an
great intended purpose. The poem may
also be taken as “Knowledge Is Power” quote when the poet says: Who hath a
book/Has but to read/And he may be/A king indeed.
The kingdom of the reader
of the book may be just an inglenook, yet it is as grand as a big kingdom’
Note: Inglenook stands for “a space
on either side of a fireplace”
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G.R.Kanwal
29th November 2023
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