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As I do every year,  My Christmas post.

CHRISTMAS DINNER

And it came to pass on a Christmas evening

While all the doors were shutted tight

Outside standing a lonely boy child,

Cold and shivering in the night

Down the street walked the lonely boy child

All the windows save but one were gleaming bright

To this window walked the lonely boy child

Peeking in, soft candle light

Through other windows he had looked at turkey,

At ducks and geese, and cherry pie

Through this window he saw a gray haired lady

Table bare, a tear in her eye.

Into his pocket reached the lonely boy child

Knowing well there was little there

He took from his coat his own Christmas dinner

A bit of cheese,  some bread to share

His outstretched hands held the food and they trembled

As the door, it opened wide

Said he “Would you share with me Christmas dinner?”

Said she softly “Come inside”

The gray haired lady brought forth to the table

Glasses, two, her last drop of wine

Said she “Here’s a toast to everyone’s Christmas,”

“And especially yours and mine.”

And it came to pass on a Christmas evening

While all the doors were shutted tight

That in that town the happiest Christmas

Was shared by candlelight.