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William Dean Howells

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Not squirrels in the park alone     His love and winter-kindness own.     When Literary Fledglings try     Their wings, in first attempt to fly,     They flutter down to Franklin Square,     Where Howells in his "Easy Chair"     Like good Saint Francis scatters crumbs     Of Hope, to each small bird that comes.     And since Bread, cast upon the main,     Must to the giver come again,     I tender now, long overtime,     This humble Crumb of grateful rhyme.

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