ANST - Fw: [TY] Drive the Cold Winter Away

Caley Woulfe cwoulfe at life.edu
Thu Dec 9 04:08:04 PST 1999


A holiday(?) song from the Tavern Yard....

Caoillainn De Bhulbh,  She-Wolf of Limerick
"If Normal is relative; it must be a very distant relative..."

-----Original Message-----
From: Lumpkin <lumpkin at telepak.net>
To: TY at reashelm.ce.utk.edu <TY at reashelm.ce.utk.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:11 PM
Subject: [TY] Drive the Cold Winter Away


To share with my friends on the yard...
Merry Christmas
Engelise
 
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Traditional (early 17th century)
only slightly out of period
 
 
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 as for the poor as the peer!
Sweet blessings 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 the mind to anger inclined
    to think of small injuries now;
If wrath be to seek, don't lend her thy cheek,
    don't let her inhabit they brow.
Cross out of thy books malevolent looks,
    both beauty and youth's decay,
And spend the long nights in honest delights
    to drive the cold winter away.
 
This time of the year is spent in good cheer
    with neighbors together to meet,
To sit by the fire, with friendly desire,
    with others 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.
 

Traditional (early 17th century)
only slightly out of period
 
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