Bodleian Group Libraries: Old Bodleian Library, Gate

"The wall of my Master is several fathoms high. If one do not find the door and enter by it, he cannot see the ancestral temple with its beauties, nor all the officers in their rich array.

"But I may assume that they are few who find the door. Was not the observation of the chief only what might have been expected"?

Yet, even Sphinx was off for Easter.

Easter journey to Bodleian libraries, pt.1
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