A Christmas Doll
"A Christmas Doll" is a poem that sets a smiling, rosy doll against the grim reality of the child laborers who made her. A happy child imagines her doll born in a fairy world of gnomes and golden birds, while the doll's voice answers with the truth: narrow walls, a dim lamp, weary hands sewing through Christmas Eve. The contrast builds quietly until the poem turns into an open moral question about poverty, labor, and whether all children truly have cause to celebrate Christmas.
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