Poetry and Sayings

Christmas

• The Month After Christmas
  T'was the month after Christmas, and all through the house
  Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse
  The cookies I ate, the eggnog I had to taste,
  At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.
  
  The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese,
  And the way I never said, "No thank you, please."
  As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt
  And prepared once again to do battle with dirt.
  
  I said to myself, as I only can...
  You can't spend the winter disguised as a man!
  I won't have a cookie, not even a lick.
  I want only to chew on a long celery stick.
  I won't have hot poatoes, or gravy or pie,
  I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.
  
  I'm hungry and lonesome, life is a bore.
  But isn't that what January is for?
  Unable to nibble, I won't even try it,
  Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!
  
  
• Before you bid, for Christmas' sake,
  Your guests to sit at meat,
  Oh please to save a little cake
  For them that have no treat.
  
  Before you give your girl and boy
  Gay gifts to be undone,
  Oh please to spare a little toy
  To them that will have none.
  
  Before you gather round the tree
  To dance the day about,
  Oh please to give a little glee
  To them that go without.
  � � � � � Eleanor Farjeon
  
  
• Come dear family, gather 'round our Christmas tree;
  Let us spend a little time in love and harmony.
  
  
• The birds are gone, the world is white,
  the winds are wild, they chill and bite;
  the ground is thick with slush and sleet,
  and I can barely feel my feet.
  
  
• Christmas Roads
  The roads of life lead us away,
  But wherever we may roam
  Christmas memories take us back
  And Christmas roads lead home.
  � � � � � Edythe M. Groves

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