The comely green-skirted Irish miss on the 1909 St. Patrick's Day post card holds high a sprig of shamrock from the basket of shamrock boutonnieres she is carrying, her long white apron blowing in the March wind. Says a familiar Irish ballad: There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle, Twas Saint Patrick himself sure that set it, And the sun on his labors with pleasure did smile, And with dew from his eye of-ten wet it, It shines thru the bog thru'the marsh and the mireland, And he called it the dear little shamrock of Ireland. The English coat of arms pictures the thistle, the rose and the shamrock growing on one stalk, for these are respectively the emblems of Scotland, England and Ireland. Kansas City Star, March 17, 1973.
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