Encomium Garrettiae - by Richard Hacken

[Also see historic handwritten manuscript dating back to AD 2006.]


Ye laboring classes
Raise your glasses!
Three cheers
Over beers!
Everything's fine
Over wine!

As we wonder whether
Anyone could have put together
A gathering of librarians
And a smattering of humanitarians
-- Sitting around podiums
With information silo custodians –
Into a symposium
So imposing
At a book fair
So fair
As well as Jeff Garrett,
Let's all grin and bear it.

While we go our various ways
We'll keep these memorable days
In our hearts and in our livers
As we cross oceans and rivers.

Three cheers for Jeff:
We got nothing' leff'
But three cheers for Jeff:
Hip, Hip, [etc.] !
Hip, Hip, [etc.] !
Hip, Hip, [etc.] !

      - by Dick Hacken

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