Irish Harp & Shamrock St. Patrick's Day Greeting Card, Art Nouveau Era

The card's message of tasteful cultural celebration clashes hilariously with its maximalist commitment to Irish symbolism — the oversized illuminated 'S' rendered in ornate Celtic style and roughly the size of a small country dominates the left side while a golden harp floats nearby surrounded by shamrocks, as if the designer was legally required to include every Irish symbol known to mankind or face prosecution in Dublin. A little scroll tied with a green ribbon dangles beneath the 'S' like a tiny diploma awarded for tolerating the acrostic poem, which reveals that S-T-D-L spells out 'Sweet harp of Erin wake thy Song, To cheer the Day we've kept so Long' — a sentence that took more infrastructure to deliver than most interstate highways. The whole composition is bordered in green with little corner jewels, ensuring that even the card's edges are doing too much.