Hipdeep Family Intro

O what a lovely set of cards,

Huge trees with lights and balls and yards

And yards of tinsel hung in loops

And little children rolling hoops

With stripy scarves behind them flapping,

While indoors cats and dogs are napping,

Stretched out on rugs before the fire.

Here's one that's definitely dire,

A lurid cromolitho is showing

Some huddled cows on whom it's snowing.

Inside there is a lengthy letter

That all's for worse and not for better.

It's from the Hipdeep family,

All victims of calamity.

If I am right from other years,

I'll read aloud - prepare for tears