Open problem

In the poem, this recording is in the public domain.

An Unsolved Problem by John Kendrick Bangs Read for LibriVox.org by Larry Wilson If Bacon wrote those grand inspiring lines At which alternately man weeps and laughs, Who was it penned those chirographic vines We know these times as Shakespeare's autographs? If someone does not speedily indict a volume that is worthy of my shelf, I'll have to buy materials and write a novel and some poetry myself.

my library o'erflows with treasures rare, of Dickens' firsts, a full unbroken set, and in a little nooklet off the stair, the whole edition of my novelette.

End of poem.