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_His Birthday, October the 7th, 1912_
/ Riley, whose pen has made the world your debtor, / Whose Art has kept you young through sixty years, / Brimming our hearts with laughter and with tears, / Holding her faith pure to the very letter: / We come to you to-day, both man and woman, / And happy little children, girl and boy, -- / To laurel you with all our love and joy, / And crown you for the dreams your pen made human: / For Orphant Annie and for Old Aunt Mary, / The Raggedty Man, who never will grow older, / And all the kindly folks from Griggsby's Station, / Immortal throngs, with Spirk and Wunk and Faery, / Who swarm behind you, peering o'er your shoulder, / Sharing with you the blessings of a Nation.