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Kneeling With Herrick

By James Whitcomb Riley

Topics: classic

Dear Lord, to Thee my knee is bent -         Give me content -     Full-pleasured with what comes to me,         Whate'er it be:     An humble roof - a frugal board,         And simple hoard;     The wintry fagot piled beside         The chimney wide,     While the enwreathing flames up-sprout         And twine about     The brazen dogs that guard my hearth         And household worth:     Tinge with the ember's ruddy glow         The rafters low;     And let the sparks snap with delight,         As fingers might     That mark deft measures of some tune         The children croon:     Then, with good friends, the rarest few         Thou boldest true,     Ranged round about the blaze, to share         My comfort there, -     Give me to claim the service meet         That makes each seat     A place of honor, and each guest         Loved as the rest.

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James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American poet known as the "Hoosier Poet." His dialect poems—including "Little Orphant Annie" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin"—celebrate rural Indiana life and childhood nostalgia.

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