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When I mixed with the shoppers and fought in vain / To get what I sought, in the Christmas rush; / When they stood on my toes in the crowded train, / Or dented my ribs in the sidewalk crush, / I dropped my manners and snarled and swore, / And thought: "It's a bothersome, beastly bore!"
But when, at the Christmas dawn, they brought / My kid to the room where his things were piled, / And when, from my vantage point, I caught / The look on his face, I murmured: "Child, / Your dad was a fool when he snarled and swore, / And called it a bothersome, beastly bore. "