Excerpt from Bacon Versus Shakespeare: Who Wrote the Plays?

To My Bookbinder

Bind me my books in stuffs and hues that mean

Something, not in a mute and formal guise;

Let every cover hide some keen surprise

To shadow forth the volume's soul unseen!

Habit good Whitman in a garb of green;

Red gold for rare old Plato, dreamer wise;

A mouchoir for my Musset's streaming eyes;

Spenser the gossamer robe of faerie queene.

And bind my Wycherley in hide of swine;

My Burns in homely borrel, stout and strong;

A crazy-patch Verlaine's absinthine song'

And royal purple Marlowe's mighty line;

But - nothing else were fit to case him in -

Bind up Will Shakespeare in a human skin!

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