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Poet deVine
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0 posted 1999-12-26 04:48 PM


Today was Boxing Day for our English Poets.... maybe someone would explain that tradition?

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Mike
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1 posted 1999-12-26 05:05 PM


I am a member of the gentry of the commonwealth,
To show my gratitude, to tradesmen and their kin,
After day of birth of Christ, I kindly share my wealth,
A present fine to those who toil, a box with goods therein.


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Elizabeth
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2 posted 1999-12-26 06:34 PM


I am not English (I'm a Minnesotan!) but the boxing day tradition comes from when, in days gone by, the rich would fill boxes with items for the needy-food, and I don't know exactly what else.

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 Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail-
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!
-Oliver Wendell Holmes




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