Poem by Edith Matilda Thomas

“Yours Severely”

(The Letter of a Five Year Old)

Once more she dipped her pen in ink,
  And wrote: "I love you dearly."
"And now," she said, and stopped to think,
  "I'll put, 'I'm
                    Yours severely.'"

1. Her Christmas Present
2. Refreshments for Santa Claus
3. The Firebrand (Northern Ohio, Christmas Eve, 1804)
4. The Christmas Sheaf
5. “I Ought to Mustn't”

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