Tomes On A Plane lyrics

There in an institution grand

Manifest by its proprietors

There within a sepulchre

Deemed a chamber mutual

Shelved are tomes on a plane

In splendid magnificence

As if to boast of lofty ideas

With distinguished titles too

Volume after volume arow

Side by side in uniformity

They command order there

The relics of great scholars

Yet within them, a farce

This commonly vacant room

A showpiece of humanity

Alas, in the stoic confines

Amid the mediocrities of man

A cascade of grandeur stands

Single-planed upon its walls

An illusion maintained still

But within these walls barren

That block out the world's age

And that hide away meek men

Are libraries for but a scene

In life's tragic production