XIV + 

Ahem! Ahem! My reader noble, + 

Are all your relatives quite well? + 

Permit me; is it worth the trouble + 

For your instruction here to tell + 

What I by relatives conceive? + 

These are your relatives, believe: + 

Those whom we ought to love, caress, + 

With spiritual tenderness; + 

Whom, as the custom is of men, + 

We visit about Christmas Day, + 

Or by a card our homage pay, + 

That until Christmas comes again + 

They may forget that we exist. + 

And so⁠—God bless them, if He list. + 