Les Chous, petits et grands, joyeusement chantaient.
Avec ou sans cadeaux, ça n'avait rien changé.
Il n'avait pas gâché la fête.
Noël était blotti dans les coeurs et les têtes.
Then he got an idea!
An awful idea!
THE GRINCH
GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA!
“And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?
“It came without ribbons! It came without tags!
It came without packages, boxes or bags!”
And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before!
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.
“Maybe Christmas … perhaps. . . means a little bit more!