Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="GRANDFATHER_KNOWS" id="GRANDFATHER_KNOWS"></SPAN>GRANDFATHER KNOWS</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Grandfather says of all things<br/></span> <span class="i2">The silliest he's heard<br/></span> <span class="i0">Is that some children call things<br/></span> <span class="i2">They've never seen, "absurd!"<br/></span> <span class="i0">And have their doubts of true things,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And won't believe, because<br/></span> <span class="i0">They say, "If you but knew things,<br/></span> <span class="i2">There <i>is</i> no Santa Claus!"<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Grandfather says he <i>knows</i> him,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And sees him every year,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And Santa often shows him<br/></span> <span class="i2">The playthings he brings here;<br/></span> <span class="i0">He says, too, Santa told him<br/></span> <span class="i2">If any girls and boys<br/></span> <span class="i0">Laugh at and won't uphold him,<br/></span> <span class="i2">They'll not get any toys!<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />