The Approach of Christmas Kitty, December 18, 2019July 26, 2022 0 0 Read Time:1 Minute, 30 Second This is from Rhymes of Childhood (1924) by Edgar A. Guest. This is a really cute poem! The Approach of ChristmasEdgar A. Guest There’s a little chap at our house that is being mighty good—Keeps the front lawn looking tidy in the way we’ve said he should;Doesn’t leave his little wagon, when he’s finished with his play,On the sidewalk as he used to; now he puts it right away.When we call him in to supper, we don’t have to stand and shout;It is getting on to Christmas and it’s plain he’s found it out. He eats the food we give him without murmur or complaint;He sits up at the table like a cherub or a saint;He doesn’t pinch his sister just to hear how loud she’ll squeal;Doesn’t ask us to excuse him in the middle of the meal,And at eight o’clock he’s willing to be tucked away in bedIt is getting close to Christmas; nothing further need be said. I chuckle every evening as I see that little elf,With the crooked part proclaiming that he brushed his hair himself.And I chuckle as I notice that his hands and face are clean,For in him a perfect copy of another boy is seen—A little boy at Christmas, who was also being good,Never guessing that his father and his mother understood. There’s a little boy at our house that is being mighty good;Doing everything that’s proper, doing everything he should.But besides him there’s a grown-up who had learned life’s bitter truth,Who is gladly living over all the joys of vanished youth.And although he little knows it (for it’s what I never knew),There’s a mighty happy father sitting at the table, too. About Post Author Kitty admin@silentphotoplay.com Happy 0 0 % Sad 0 0 % Excited 0 0 % Sleepy 0 0 % Angry 0 0 % Surprise 0 0 % 0 0 votes Article Rating Loading Likes... Antique Books Christmas Holidays Poems childrenChristmascutepoem