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Children of Christmas, and Others - Edith Matilda Thomas
Edith Matilda Thomas
Children of Christmas, and Others
EAN 8596547160694
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
CRADLE SONG For one Born at Christmas
HOW MANY
HER CHRISTMAS PRESENT A True Incident
A CHRISTMAS SPY
REFRESHMENTS FOR SANTA CLAUS
HOW THE CHRISTMAS TREE WAS BROUGHT TO NOME
HOLLY AND MISTLETOE
THE FIREBRAND (Northern Ohio, Christmas Eve, 1804)
THE FOUNDLING
MEETING THE KINGS (Suggested by A Provençal Christmas Postscript,
Thomas A. Janvier)
THE PROCESSION OF THE KINGS
MELCHIOR’S RIDE
ONE OF THE TWELVE A Christmas Carol From the Provençal of Roumanille
THE WITCH’S CHILD
BABUSHKA (A Russian Legend)
A CHRISTMAS OFFERING (Florence, Italy)
CHRISTMAS POST
THE CHRISTMAS SHEAF (Provençal)
THE BIRDS ON THE CHRISTMAS SHEAF
WHAT THE PINE TREES SAID
TWO CHILD ANGELS
THE OLD DOLL (Just after Christmas)
THE APPLE-BLOSSOM SWITCH
THE INDIGNANT BABY
A QUESTION OF SPELLING
YOURS SEVERELY
(The Letter of a Five Year Old)
A LACK OF ATTENTION
I OUGHT TO MUSTN’T
A VAIN REGRET
IN THE DARK LITTLE FLAT AT THE END OF THE COURT
THE LITTLE GIRL FROM TOWN
FOR EVERY DAY
THE DAY-DREAMER
BORN DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND (At an Asylum)
THE CRADLE-CHILD
SOME LADIES OF THE OLDEN TIME
A WATER LILY
THE KINDERBANK The Little Mothers
BUONAMICO A Legend of Florence
THE PRINCE AND THE WHIPPING-BOY
MASTER CORVUS
P. ABBOTT
(A Tradition of Westminster Abbey)
THE GIANT’S DAUGHTER
EROTION AND THE DOVE.
THE HOMESICK SOLDIER
THE COSSACK MOTHER
THE BLOSSOM-CHILD
THE CLOCK OF THE YEAR
THE YOUNG OF SPRING
THE TRIUMPH OF THE BROWN THRUSH
DAY—WIDE DAY!
THE BLOSSOMS OF TO-MORROW
THE NEST IN THE HEATHER (In Scotland it was an old custom for the young people on Easter morning to hunt for eggs of the wild fowl)
LADY-GROVE (SILVER BIRCHES)
SHADOW BROOK
THE BROOK AND THE BIRD
THE BIRDS OF SOLEURE
THE PRAIRIE NEST
THE MOVING OF THE NEST
THE WIDOWED EAGLE
THE CHICKADEE
THE EARTH-MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN
WHEN THE LEAVES ARE GONE
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING (1621)
MASCOTS
MOTHER FUR
WHAT THE CAT-MOTHER SAID
WHAT THE BIRD-MOTHER SAID
WHAT THE FRIEND OF BOTH SAID
THE LITTLE BROWN BAT
THE LOST CHARTER (Based on an Arabic Legend)
THE SAVING OF JACK An East Side Incident
SKYE OF SKYE
TIP’S KITTEN
THE KING OF CATS
WAIFS
FROST-FLOWERS OF THE PAVEMENT
STARS OF THE SNOW
JUNE IN THE SKY
MOTHER EARTH
THE RAIN RAINS EVERY DAY
THE GOOD BY
CRADLE SONG
For one Born at Christmas
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Happy thou, a winter comer,
Happier with the snows around thee
Than if rosy-fingered summer
In thy cradle-nest had crowned thee.
Tender is the night, and holy:
Little clouds, like cherub faces,
Up the moon path, drifting slowly,
Vanish in the heavenly spaces.
Clothed in splendor, past our earth night,
Sphere on sphere is chanting Nowel:
Child, thy birthnight keeps a Birthnight
Dearest in all Time’s bestowal!
He who slept within a manger
Guards the pillow thou art pressing—
Sent thee hither, little stranger,
Blest—to be our Christmas Blessing!
HOW MANY
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Resting her curly head on my knee,
And slipping her small hand into mine,
My baby girl asks how many there’ll be
On Christmas day when we dine.
Though I’ve told her before, and she knows very well,
There’ll be grandpa and grandma,
I repeat,
And Uncle Charlie and Aunt Estelle
And Cousin Marguerite.
And Uncle Philip and Cousin Kate,
And mamma’s old friend, Miss Madeline;
And—let me see—ah, yes, that is eight,
And Mr. Brownell makes nine!
As I close my story I hear a sigh,
The curly head closer nestles, and then,
In a sad little voice, How many are I?
My darling! At least you are ten!
HER CHRISTMAS PRESENT
A True Incident
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With doll in arms to court she came,—
A mite of tender years
Between her sobs she put the case,
Her eyes brimmed up with tears.
"They’ve put my mamma into jail—
And oh, I love her so!
She’s very good—my mamma is—
Please, won’t you let her go?"
Just look! She made this doll for me
(She held it up to view).
The judge did look. Don’t cry,
he said,
We’ll see what we can do.
What charge against the prisoner, clerk?
"Sold apples in the street.
She had no license, and, when fined,
The fine she could not meet."
My mamma’s good. Please, let her go.
The judge looked down and smiled;
"So well you’ve pleaded, she shall be
Your Christmas Present, child."
"Now take this paper, little one,
It sets your mother free.
She should be very proud of you;
Go, tell her so, from me."
With doll in arms away she went,
And soon the prison gained;
And when her mother clasped her close,
The happy child explained:
"A kind, good man like Santa Claus,
With hair as white as snow,
He let you out because—because
I asked him too, you know!"