介绍:
松树林里有一棵小松树，它比别的松树都要矮小。圣诞节快到了，小松树每天都在期待自己会被一个有爱的家庭选中带回家。它想象着自己的树枝上挂满了彩灯还有丝带，脚下是包装精美的礼物，孩子们蹦蹦跳跳地围着它唱歌跳舞。想到这些，小松树在寒风中站得更直了。可是，平安夜已经来了，人们来了却又走了，他们都挑选了更大更高的松树回家了。小松树又冷又孤单，它伤心地哭了。这个圣诞节它还能找到一个温暖的家嘛？
The Little Christmas Tree
by Bob Lazzaar-Atwood
A happy little Christmas tree
Stood bravely in the cold,
And prayed, to some nice family,
It one day would be sold
It dreamed of all the pretty lights
They'd string around its limbs,
And of the warm and quiet nights
They'd fill with Christmas hymns.
It pictured all the happy smiles
On each and every face,
And all the brightly colored piles
Of gifts around its base.
So every day the little tree
Would stretch its trunk up high,
And hold its limbs out gracefully
As people passed it by.
And many people loved the tree
And often told it so,
But most of them would later leave
With larger trees in tow.
With Christmas just a week away
The rush for trees was on,
They sold them faster every day
'til most of them were gone.
But not the little Christmas tree
It stayed upon the lot,
And when it closed on Christmas Eve
It still had not been bought.
With heavy heart and weary limbs
The tree began to weep,
And as the day grew cold and dim
It cried itself to sleep.
That night an angel passing by
Took pity on the tree,
And flew it swiftly though the sky
To find a family.
She left it by a poor man’s door
And knocked so he could hear,
She knew that he could not afford
A Christmas tree that year.
On Christmas Day the tree awoke
To loud and joyous noise,
It saw the smiles of happy folks
And laughing girls and boys.
Its limbs were draped with popcorn strings
And ribbons tied in bows,
And up on top with tinfoil wings
An angel proudly posed.
No treasure to be found on Earth
Could match the little tree's,
For none could be of greater worth
than love and family.
And way up high above the clouds
Where only angels roam,
A light was shining brighter now,
The tree had found a home.
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