<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Santa Claus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most tangible of all the gods that be,<br>O Santa Claus-- our own since Infancy!<br>As first we scampered to thee-- now, as then,<br>Take us as children to thy heart again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be wholly good to us, just as of old:<br>As a pleased father, let thine arms infold<br>Us, homed within the haven of thy love,<br>And all the cheer and wholesomeness thereof.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou lone reality, when O so long<br>Life's unrealities have wrought us wrong:<br>Ambition hath allured us--, fame likewise,<br>And all that promised honor in men's eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Throughout the world's evasions, wiles, and shifts,<br>Thou only bidest stable as thy gifts--:<br>A grateful king re-ruleth from thy lap,<br>Crowned with a little tinselled soldier-cap:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mighty general-- a nation's pride--<br>Thou givest again a rocking-horse to ride,<br>And wildly glad he groweth as the grim<br>Old jurist with the drum thou givest him:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sculptor's chisel, at thy mirth's command,<br>Is as a whistle in his boyish hand;<br>The painters model fadeth utterly,<br>And there thou standest--, and he painteth thee--:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most like a winter pippin, sound and fine<br>And tingling-red that ripe old face of thine,<br>Set in thy frosty beard of cheek and chin<br>As midst the snows the thaws of spring set in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ho! Santa Claus-- our own since Infancy--<br>Most tangible of all the gods that be--!<br>As first we scampered to thee-- now, as then,<br>Take us as children to thy heart again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416885" data-title="To Santa Claus de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Most tangible of all the gods that be, O Santa Claus-- our own since Infancy! As first we scampered to thee-- now, as then, Take us as children to thy heart again. Be wholly good to us, just as of old: As a pleased father, let thine arms infold U..."></div> </div> </div>

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