Saturday, December 31, 2011

Farewell, 2011

Sees that 2011 is just hours away from its close, and feels that this ancient carol is appropriate:


The old year now away is fled, the new year it is entered;
Then let us all our sins down tread, and joyfully all appear.
Let's merry be this holiday, and let us run with sport and play,
Hang sorrow, let's cast care away – God send us a merry new year!

And now with new year's gifts each friend unto each other they do send;
God grant we may our lives amend, and that truth may now appear.
Now like the snake cast off your skin of evil thoughts and wicked sin,
And to amend this new year begin – God send you a happy new year!

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