Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COMPENSATIONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY



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First Line: There's goin' to be a chris'mas-tree next door!
Last Line: Them upstarts know!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Ice; Play; Snow; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The


THERE'S goin' to be a Chris'mas-tree next door!
Jess an' me know;
We saw them buyin' candles to the store—
An't must be so!

Ma says the Joneses folks is awful proud,
An' so you see,
Their little boy an' girl don't play around
With Jess an me.

When me and Jess make snow-forts in the street,
They sit an' stare
Outen their windows, but they never come—
They wouldn't dare!

An' when we made that big terboggan-slide,
They bawled, I bet,
When their ma told them, No, they couldn't play,
Fear they'd get wet!

An' oh, that day when all the street was ice!
And we'd begin
An' slide fer half a mile, their ma she said
They must stay in!

An' when the sleigh went scootin' past their door,
With Jess an' me,
They blubbered till they froze the window-pane,
An' couldn't see.

But now they're goin' to have a really show—
A Chris'mas tree—
An' there ain't been no invertation come
Fer Jes an' me!

Ma says that if she felt so bad because
She couldn't go
She'd see their old tree farther' fore she'd let
Them upstarts know!





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