Happy Yule!

[tamarinne]

Stolen from reedrover...



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, reveling!
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!