It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what “tacky” is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one. – Pat Conroy
ODE.
SUNG ON THE OCCASION OF DECORATING THE GRAVES
OF THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, AT MAGNOLIA CEMETERY,
CHARLESTON, S. C., 1867.
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
In seeds of laurel in the earth
The blossom of your fame is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
The shaft is in the stone!
Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years
Which keep in trust your storied tombs,
Behold! your sisters bring their tears,
And these memorial blooms.
Small tributes! but your shades will smile
More proudly on these wreaths to-day,
Than when some cannon-moulded pile
Shall overlook this bay.
Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!
There is no holier spot of ground
Than where defeated valor lies,
By mourning beauty crowned!
The best biography on Timrod is Walter Brian Cisco, Henry Timrod: A Biography
.See also The Poems of Henry Timrod.
Ha! My mom used to use the word tacky, and never in a good way. : ).
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She used it correctly! :) Hope all is well and imagine you had snow today.
DeleteWhen I lived up in the Midwest we used the word "tacky." It referred to something cheap, possibly exhibitionist, loud, and never something good.
ReplyDeleteThanks and we use it as something in bad taste. :)
DeleteThat is exactly how mom used it ^^^^^^^^^^. It was also a given that if something was tacky under no circumstances were you to participate, partake, or engage in any way or there would be a reckoning to deal with. ��. One of her “triggers” for tacky was women going in public with curlers in their hair. Oh mercy! Ha!
DeleteWe are , so far having a mild winter. We have snow but nothing like we have had previous winters. The El Niño/Nina thing. Thankfully!
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TeresaSue
That is exactly how mom used it ^^^^^^^^^^. It was also a given that if something was tacky under no circumstances were you to participate, partake, or engage in any way or there would be a reckoning to deal with. ��. One of her “triggers” for tacky was women going in public with curlers in their hair. Oh mercy! Ha!
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We have snow but nothing like we have had previous winters.
Good deal and you owe me nothing. :)