Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress, / And you shall sleep restful nights

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Let books be your dining table, - Your books are your dining table, where you can enjoy a good meal. - Let them be your mattress, - Your books are the bed where you can sleep comfortably. - And you shall sleep restful nights, - When you read you feel peaceful and secure.

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1. Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress, / And you shall sleep restful nights

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2. This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature; it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our evil will." Hymns of the Nativity, Hymn 1:97, pg. 74 in Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns (New York: Paulist Press, 1989).

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