Millikin University - Millidek Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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THE CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR MOTHER In the Christmas times of the long ago There was one That was It wasn't the But the talks event we used to know better than any other, toys that we hoped to get, we had-and I hear them yet- Of the gift we'd buy for Mother. If ever love fashioned a Christmas gift, Or saved its money and practiced thrift, 'Twas done in those days, my brother- Those golden times of Long Gone By, Gf our happiest years, when you and I Talked over the gift for Mother. We hadn't gone forth on our different Ways Nor coined our lives into yesterdays In the fires that smelt and smother, And we whispered and planned in our youthful glee Of that marvelous Nsomethingn which was to be The gift of our hearts to Mother. It had to be all that our purse could give, Something she'd treasure while she could live And better than any other. we gave it the best of our love and thought, And, Oh, the joy when at last we'd bought That marvelous gift for Mother! Now I think as we go on our different ways Of the joys of those vanished yesterdays, How good it would If this Christmas-time That same sweet thrill When we shared in be, my brother, we could only know of the long Ago the gift for Mother , l 7 0

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