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For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.

But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!

There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?

Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.

I think true love is never blind, / But rather brings an added light; / An inner vision quick to find / The beauties hid from common sight.

For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.

Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.

Do we call the star lost that is hidden / In the great light of morn?

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today

For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright!
I have twined them in my sister's locks
That are hid in the dust from sight.

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest ...

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.