Children of Christmas, and Others

by Edith Matilda Thomas

In the kindly German tongue.

For the happy moment at last is here,

When each child a letter sends,

Directed to Christkindlein dear—

The Children’s Friend of Friends!

Then, out at the window—strung on a thread,

The precious letter is cast;

Though far and high on the night wind sped,

’Twill be found and read at last!

In Sulz-am-Neckar, prompt as the day,