that's luverly Jon. winter's being driven away alright, here anyway
KS
On 04/03/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Drive the cold winter away
>
> (anon. 17th cent.)
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> All hail to the days that merit more praise
> Than all the rest of the year,
> And welcome the nights that double delights
> As well for the poor as the peer!
> Good fortune attend each merry man's friend
> That doth but the best that he may,
> Forgetting old wrongs with poems and songs
> To drive the cold winter away.
>
> Tis ill for a mind to anger inclined
> To think of small injuries now,
> If wrath be to seek, do not lend her your cheek
> Nor let her inhabit thy brow.
> Cross out of thy books malevolent looks,
> Both beauty and youth's decay,
> And wholly consort with mirth and sport
> To drive the cold winter away.
>
> This time of the year is spent in good cheer
> And neighbours together do meet,
> To sit by the fire, with friendly desire,
> Each other in love to greet.
> Old grudges forgot are put in the pot,
> All sorrows aside they lay,
> The old and the young doth carol this song,
> To drive the cold winter away.
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