In your little hand so fast?"
Then he looked at them with his honest eyes,
And answered sturdily:
"My stocking is full to the top, kind sirs,
Of the gift that I cannot see."
They would stare and laugh, but he trudged
With his stocking fast in his hand:
"And I wonder why 'tis that the people all
Seem not to understand!"
"Oh, my heart's little flower!" she cried to