Our Gifts

How sweetly ring the Christmas

chimes,

How joyously the carollers sing;

How gladly in these wondrous

times

Our gifts we bring.

Our loyalty to childhood first,

Our patience with its errors

small,

Our courage to go up and on

When troubles fall.

Above all else we bring our love,

That leads us still to seek the

best;

And then to God, who loves us

all,

We leave the rest.

--Edith G. Hawkes

Parent-Teacher Messenger, Fourteenth District, vol. 3, no. 2. Santa Rosa, CA, December 1928.

"Class of 1891: Granger, Edith" - Classes of 1891-1900 records, Smith College Archives, CA-MS-01022, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.