Which excerpt from "A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long” best supports the conclusion that books gave the poem’s speaker a sense
of comfort and hope during her childhood? There was a bookstore uptown on gay street Which I visited and inhaled that wonderful odor Even today I read hardcover as a preference paperback only As a last resort And up the hill on vine street (The main black corridor) sat our carnegie library Mrs. Long always glad to see you But no lions or witches scared me I went through Knowing there would be Spring
