The Librarian’s Lament Copyright © Sally Warrell December 2007

We are the flaming heart Librarians
We love books
We love information
We are waiting at our station
We are here to help

We are the flaming heart Librarians
We mourn all the lost books
The tattered and torn
The forlorn
The broken spines
The missing pages
We are book hospital

But we cannot accomplish
The impossible
And so we wave goodbye
To old books and information
We wait at our station
For the dawn of the new
Books and information
We are the flaming heart Librarians
We are here to help