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Her little store of nuts and corn, And thus her timid guests bespoke: “Come, squirrel, from your hollow oak,— Come, black old crow,—come, poor blue-jay, Before your supper's blown away! Don't be afraid, we all are good; And I'm mamma's Red Riding-Hood!” O Thou whose care is over all, Who heedest even the sparrow's fall, Keep in the little maiden's breast The pity which is now its guest! Let not her cultured years make less The childhood charm of tenderness, But let her feel as well as know, Nor harder with her polish grow! Unmoved by sentimental grief That wails along some printed leaf, But, prompt with kindly word and deed To own the claims of all who need, Let the grown woman's self make good The promise of Red Riding-Hood! 1877. Response. On the occasion of my seventieth birthday in 1877, I was the recipient of many tokens of esteem. The publishers of the Atlantic Monthly gave a dinner in my name, and the editor of The Literary World gathered in his paper many affect