Once Upon a Time, and Other Child-Verses

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Child's gift,

To-night, in the chimney-place."

On Christmas morning the city through,

The children were queens and kings,

With their royal treasuries bursting o'er

With wonderful, lovely things.

But the merriest child in the city full,

And the fullest of all with glee,

Was the one whom the dear Christ Child

had brought