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Though Some May Be Fooled by Tony Cosier Ontario, Canada

Though some may be fooled by his worldly tie broad as a sail, a golden gossamer full-blown sail at that, or by his sly slick smiling as he sees a customer enter his main store, the big one, the one he keeps an eye on himself now and then and Christmas always, he knows himself one not quite the way he's seen by other men and yes at Christmas especially he knows himself a man of some profundity. Heartened by kids slogging in boots and muffed, by well-lit trees and tinsel, and mistletoe, oh, by mothers pushing carriages stuffed with packages for all the babies, oh by fathers trailing mothers, oh by fat redwhite round Santas straddling cardboard deer, by buzzers and by bell-rings, hymns, the thump and rolling of the bustling time of year, he prays a silent prayer on his own, humbly assured the Saviour will not let him down.   (from Christmas Wears Many Faces, edited and published by Laura Baldwin, 1980)

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