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TO FATHER CHRISTMAS
- FATHER CHRISTMAS, will you please
- Bring us lots of books and toys,—
- Fill our stockings, deck the trees
- With all sorts of shining joys,
- So that every child who sees
- Makes a loud and happy noise!
- Come with merry sound of bells
- Breaking through our midnight sleep,
- Rousing hamlets, citadels,
- Prompting little heads to peep—
- If they see you, no one tells,
- ’Tis a secret that we keep.
- Come with snowy coverlet,
- Spread it over field and town
- When the hasty sun is set,
- And the night drops softly down;
- Little children don’t forget
- Your rosy face and holly crown!
