What an odd little snippet of poetry in this Little Nemo Valentine's postcard issued by Tuck:
Though, princess,
Nemo's far away.
He'll love but you,
For aye and aye.
I sure don't get that 'aye and aye' business, but a quick Google reveals that the phrase has currency in other poems as well. Basically it seems like it's a fancy way of saying 'forever'. Who says comics don't teach you stuff.
Anyway, the game with these Little Nemo cards is to find the source of the scene in the original McCay Sunday strips. Can you find it?
This one is real simple, since it is only one week after the last one. November 10, 1907.
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An easy win for Brian. Thanks!
ReplyDelete"Aye and Aye" would seem to be an alternate of "Bye and Bye", maybe in Scots dialect. Archaic terms, you may be sure, but my grandmother used to often use "Come bye and Bye" for "forever" or even "eternity", as heard in the hymn, "In The Sweet Bye and Bye."
ReplyDeleteThe Scottish National Dictionary has, as the first definition of the word "aye" the following: "Always, ever, continually, on all occasions." (See: https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/aye). In this context, as Mark Johnson says, above, it could be taken to mean "forever and ever."
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