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. Melchior's Ride
2. A Question of Spelling
3. “I Ought to Mustn't”
4. A Vain Regret
5. In the Dark Little Flat at the End of the Court

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