Hard Copy of History

 Books worthy to own

Shelves spacious or narrowly confined

From dusty basements

To well-lit collections wide

Fit for consumption

Dictionaries old

Romances of brazen knights

And dainty damsels fair

Copy tangible

A librarian's dream

Bespoke jewels of crown

Testimony to those who have gone before

Remote glories of long-forgotten pasts

Sundered from oral memory

Structured in form of History