Buy me every chance you get! Do you good? Just try me! Lick me light and stick me tight! Buy me! Buy me! Buy me! All good luck and Christmas cheer, All good will I carry, I’m your friend and—never fear— Truly sanitary. I’m the Red Cross Christmas Stamp, This that I propose is To summon wealth to fight for health And beat tuberculosis. Beat the greatest plague of all, Oust a pall of sadness, Treat despair with food and air, And lift it into gladness. Buy me! Buy me! I’m your friend. Help me win my battle! Help me bring a scourge to end, Men are more than cattle! Help me help the suffering! I’m their supplication Skill that’s brotherly shall bring Healing to the nation. THE RED CROSS STAMP BY IRVING SAYFORD. Who’ll pay a cent with a square intent? Red for their blood—and life is sweet; White for the gleam of their winding sheet; Green for their graves—and death, be fleet! Who’ll pay a cent for a chance to cheat The great white plague of its winding sheet? One stamp for a penny—you’ll take how many? Red’s for the glow of the Christmas cheer; White’s for the peace of the brand-new year; Green’s for the brow, not for the bier; Who’ll drop a penny instead of a tear To lessen the list in the brand-new year? THE LITTLE CHRISTMAS STAMP BY ARTHUR G. BURGOYNE. (_Air: “Wearing of the Green.”_) Nowadays for letter-writing Here’s the popular receipt: First with chit-chat that’s inviting Coyer deftly ev’ry sheet. Seal it neatly and address it; Blot the superscription damp. Then don’t mail the note unless it Has a little Christmas Stamp. _Refrain_: Oh, the little Christmas Stamp! Oh, the cheery Christmas Stamp, With its message to the fireside and the workshop and the camp! Trav’ling over vale and mountain, over lake and plain and swamp, As a messenger of mercy goes the little Christmas Stamp. Postal bureaus are not able In their wisdom to invent Any brighter, fairer label On our letters to be sent. They may try a new creation, Or the old designs revamp, But the meanwhile the population Craves the little Christmas Stamp. Stamps of England show the florid Bearded visage of King Ed. Stamps from Egypt’s deserts torrid, Show the Sphynx’s grinning head. Other stamps show deer and fishes, Or a pictured urn or lamp, But the one that bears good wishes Is the little Christmas Stamp. Russia sports her eagles mighty On her postal guarantees; Spain depicts her monarch flighty, Germany her own main squeeze. Other pow’rs use landscapes charming, Which in narrow space they cramp, But the one design heart-warming Marks the little Christmas Stamp.