It's a class act ... this year ... the stamp act ...

(No Santas or other fables of the Holiday Pact)

Just a modern painting of Madonna and Child

To remind us of the reason for all of the smiles



For were HE not born on the day we celebrate

Almost two thousand years ago ... quite a date!!!

Then we'd have no reason at all to acknowledge

A birth of a God-child ... a miracle most polished



Which some have remembered and pinpointed well

In this seasonal holiday at each year's end, as they sell

A pretty stamp ... to remind us exactly what it's all about

... A Christ-child born to a virgin-mother ... a feat - stout



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

12:55pm Tues. Dec. 22nd, 1998