HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO MY DEAR ENGLISH-SPEAKING READERS

 There’s More to Christmas     
    
There’s more, much more to Christmas     
Than just candle-lights and cheer;     
It’s the spirit of sweet friendship     
That brightens all the years;     
It is thoughtfulness and kindness,     
It is hope that is reborn again,     
For peace, for understanding     
And for goodwill to humans!     
    
Christmas For Friends     
    
Christmas is a holiday for friends,     
However they may be, or not, related.     
Remember that the Three Wise Kings were strangers     
In search of one remote, uncanny dream     
So may we all be far more than we seem,
Together bound for dark and haunting changes,     
Lovelier for the loves we have created     
Along the lonely paths from means to ends,     
Stumbling towards that Star of Bethlehem!