The Christmas Box
"The Christmas Box" is a short comic poem following a boy who eagerly winds through town on Christmas, rattling a collection box as he solicits coins from his master's customers. The few copper coins inside jingle with a sweetness that fills him with outsized joy — a delight the poet wryly compares to the relief of a debtor freed from a bailiff's grip by generous friends who settle all his debts. The poem finds humour and warmth in small pleasures and the absurd scale of a child's happiness.
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