(O come let us adore him)
(O come let us adore him)
(O come let us adore him)
(Christ the Lord)
I'm a newspaper editor and I get letters
From all kinds of people asking all kinds of questions
There is one letter that stands out in my mind above all others
And this is what it said
Dear editor
My name is Virginia
I'm 8 years old
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus
But I know if you say so in the paper it must be true
Please tell me the truth
Is there a Santa Claus?
And I replied
Dear Virginia
Your little friends are wrong
They do not believe what they cannot see
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
He is as real as love and devotion
And Virginia?
These are the things that give to life its highest beauty and joy
How sad the world would be there if there was no Santa Claus
It would be as sad as if there were no little girls
There would be no child like faith then
No poetry
No beauty to make bearable this existence
We should have no enjoyment except in what we feel and see
The eternal light with which children fill the world would be put out
Not believe in Santa Claus?
You might as well not believe in angels
You know Virginia?
You might have your daddy hire men
To watch all the chimneys on Christmas Eve
To catch Santa Claus
But even if they didn't see him coming down
What would that prove?
Nobody sees Santa Claus
But that doesn't mean there is no Santa Claus
The most real things in the world
Are those that neither children nor grown-ups can see
Er, did you ever see angels in the sky?
Of course not
But that doesn't prove they're not there
Is it all real?
Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else as real and abiding
No Santa Claus?
Thank God he lives and he lives forever
A thousand years from now Virginia
Even ten times ten thousand years from now
He will continue to make glad the hearts of little children