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. A Water Lily
2. The Procession of the Kings
3. The Day-Dreamer
4. The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf
5. A Question of Spelling

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