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The Book Of Joyous Children Gratefully And Affectionately Inscribed To Joel Chandler Harris

By James Whitcomb Riley

Topics: classic

You who to the rounded prime         Of a life of toil and stress,      Still have kept the morning-time          Of glad youth in heart and spirit,          So your laugh, as children hear it,         Seems their own, no less, -      Take this book of childish rhyme -             The Book of Joyous Children.      Their first happiness on earth         Here is echoed - their first glee:      Rich, in sooth, the volume's worth -          Not in classic lore, but rich in          The child-sagas of the kitchen; -         Therefore, take from me      To your heart of childish mirth             The Book of Joyous Children.

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About James Whitcomb Riley

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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