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James Whitcomb Riley - Gratefully And Affectionately Inscribed To Joel Chandler Harris
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_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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