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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1965
Page
17
The article reflects on the phrase Merry Christmas as more than merriment, linking it to the Nativity and the spirit of giving. It traces Christmas origins from pagan Saturnalia and Yuletide to December 25 celebrations, uniting festive joy with worship.
A biblical scholar and divinity professor, Dr. Clement Clarke Moore, wrote the 1822 poem for his children. A visitor copied it and published it anonymously in the Troy Sentinel a year later, as Moore felt the verse was indecorous for a man of the cloth.
A folk tale says on Christ's birth night all trees bloomed. Stories describe a central forest tree with candles and a haloed infant at the top symbolizing humanity. The turning of the candles signified people good and bad. The text also notes a separate term dog fall in wrestling where both combatants touch the ground.
The text notes that in 1844 the poem was published and for the first time credited to its creator, Clement Clarke Moore.
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