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Chapter 1
  
 Ancient art, for on cave walls  
The alphabet of life was drawn  
 Perils faced from tooth and claw  
 Cave mens records, captured scrawls  
Just bits and boobs the intrigue of their lifes and skills  
   
Chapter 2  
   
Civilisations come and go and war lords fight another day  
Wise men and the prophets    
The visionary they taught just by hearsay  
Folklore gathered round the fire  
 Stories handed down the elder statesman to his son inspired 
   
Chapter 3  
How came the written word  
My guess was commerce trade and such  
Tallys kept the abacus  
To make your mark and not bring shame upon your house  
The slate is crossed, the wax bears your emboss    
   
Chapter 4  
Egyptians used papyrus scrolls    
To document there daily toils  
The mathemetics of the piramids  
That dynasty the hieroglyphics of the life they lived  
The Rosetta stone the key to unlock all  
   
Chapter 5    
For onward languages they seemed to thrive  
The Chineese wrote on a paper from plants derived  
And so the scribes complied a book    
So inscrutable wrote in reverse    
 Secrets the characters the orient contrived  
   
Chapter 6  
The bible and all holy works    
The Pope the power of the church  
They kept the populus in fear  
With latin text  and ignorance and brutaliy indeeed  
   
Chapter7  
That time would always come the metal  
It was wrought the furace cast the letter  
Roman numerals to form the rows    
Sentences and paragraphs and chapters grow  
That  library we all enjoy may the Kindle die unpleasantly  
   
Chapter8  
That ink upon the page  
That book its spine of the modern age  
All learning imaginations profound profanity  
The affair to keep you glued to the last page  
But are we dust up on the shelves    
   
The end