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The Gift I Didn’t Get · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: The gift I didn't get. I have presents by the dozen,
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  Speaker 1: meant to make my Christmas glad from each uncle, aunt,
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  Speaker 1: and cousin best a fellow ever had. There's a keepsake
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  Speaker 1: from my mother. Father sent a check, And yet I
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  Speaker 1: am thinking of another of the one I didn't get.
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  Speaker 1: There are gifts from all the fellows, pipes and things
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  Speaker 1: a chum will send. There's a tie all reds and
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  Speaker 1: yellows from a girl who calls me friend. You would
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  Speaker 1: think me far from slighted if you saw them all.
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  Speaker 1: And yet I confess I'm most delighted with the one
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get. She told me it was ready, She'd
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  Speaker 1: prepared it long before I'd been calling on her steady
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  Speaker 1: for at least a year or more. She told me
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  Speaker 1: all about it, and her eyes with tears were wet.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm happy, never doubt it for that gift I
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  Speaker 1: didn't get. Her attitude was altered when I called on
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  Speaker 1: her last night. But my tale of love I faltered,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess I did it right. And this little
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  Speaker 1: rhyme is written cause I'm full of joy. You bet
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  Speaker 1: for a frosty little mitten was the gift I didn't get.