- The busy Christmas shopper
Considers it is proper
- To join the crowd and rush into the thickest of the
- fray
And soak his summer wages
In quick, successive stages
- To buy some presents for his friends on happy
- Christmas day.
- The age in which we're living
Is an awful time for giving,
- But the spirit that is prompting it may be entirely
- wrong;
Too often Christmas shopping
Is a sort of Christmas swapping
- In a sort of favored circle where they pass the gifts
- along.
- If I buy my aunts and cousins
Costly trinkets by the dozens
- Or present my wealthy neighbor with a silver
- spittereen,
'Tis because of expectation
That there'll be reciprocation,
- And I'll get a handsome runabout, propelled by
- gasoline.
- The fellow who is needy,
Whose duds are old and seedy,
- Gets little out of Christmas but a fresh supply of
- woes;
His children know no Santy
For his means are very scanty
- And every cent that he can make must go for food
- and clothes.
The real Christmas giving
That makes this life worth living
- And shows that we are any use in this old world of
- care
Is to give where it is needing
And pass not by unheeding
- The wants of those around us who do not get their
- share.
Some humble, little present
Or a smile that's warm and pleasant
- Will please a child or cheer those hearts that oft for
- kindness yearn
And will give more real pleasure
Than a ton of costly treasure
- That we send our friends, expecting something better
- in return.
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