One day some young poet
will make your impossible wish come true
by knowing your books,
books as rare as flowers underground,
written for a hundred friends.
Source: Translated From the Night, 1935.
-- Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, (Mar 4 1901-1937), Malagasy poet; He was one of the most important of African poets writing in French, considered to be the father of modern literature in his native land.