The Shortest Day
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And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away. They lighted candles in the winter trees; They hung their homes with evergreen; They burned beseeching fires all night long To keep the year alive. And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake They shouted, revelling. Through all the frosty ages you can hear them Echoing behind us – listen! All the long echoes, sing the same delight, This Shortest Day, As promise wakens in the sleeping land: They carol, feast, give thanks, And dearly love their friends, And hope for peace. And now so do we, here, now, This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!
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Re: The Shortest Day
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connoisseur
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This was the very best way to start the day; thank you! Beautiful.
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It also explains where Christmas came from.
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It also explains where Christmas came from. By the end of December northerners are getting tired of sex in the dark so they invented a holiday?
Fred
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I should have mentioned that this poem was written by Susan Cooper.
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