The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 43, Milford, Kosciusko County, 26 November 1969 — Page 22

THE MAIL JOURNAL —Wed., Nov. 26, 1969

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Famous Writers Find New Ways to Say, ‘ARyghteMerrie Chrystmasse Toe You ’

Great writers of every age since medieval times have made contributions to the various expressions and phrases that are associated with Christmas. Such expressions as, “A Ryghte Merrie Chrystmasse Toe You,” have now become archaic and the spelling quaint. But the continued exchange of Christmas cards over the years has been a strong influence in preserving the traditional words, or greetings, associated with the season. From the very beginning of greeting cards, prime importance was placed on the message itself. In fact, some of the earliest cards were simply greetings with sprigs or borders of holly on an otherwise plain card. But then, as early as the

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1880’s in England and also in America, verses appropriate to the season and composed by famous authors, were proving, popular on Christmas cards. One such poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — with a portrait of the eminent gentleman — appears on one of the antiques in the Hallmark Historical Collection, a treasury of more than 50,000 greetings which provides a variety of the expressions of good cheer and Christmas wishes by famous writers over the years. The age old message of the season is to be found in today’s Christmas cards, expressed in poetry and prose by such outstanding literary figures of the past and present as William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

Sara Tear dale and, more recently, T. S. Eliot, Archibald MadLeish, William Carlos Williams and the late Russian writer, Boris Pasternak. Pasternak’s “The Christmas Pine Tree” has been excerpted for a greeting card which reads in part: I love her to tears, at sight, from the first, As she comes from the woods in storm and snow. So awkward her branches, the shyest of firs! We fashion her threads unhurriedly, slow. Her garments of silvery, gossamer lace, Patterns of tinsel, and spangles aglow From branch unto branch, down to the base I love her to tears, from the first, so bright In a crowd of friends on

Christmas night." Portions of Sir Walter Scott’s “Marmion” have been used for still another Christmas card verse: “England was merry England when Old Christmas brought his sports again. The damsel donned her kirtle sheen; The hall was dressed with holly green; Forth to the wood did merrymen go To gather in the mistletoe. 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft would cheer The poor man's heart through half the year." In a lighter vein, one of America’s most popular versifiers, Ogden Nash, has contributed his own inimitable style and thoughts to the spirit of Christmas greetings with several mirth-provoking stanzas such as the following: “Our halls are decked with boughs of holly, And trimmings red and green and jolly; We get that old time Christmas feeling While tacking wreaths from floor to ceiling. To you we sipped a Yuletide cup While hanging decorations up; Oh, how we wish you were in town — So you could help us take them down!”

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