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Sunday 31 December 2017

BEST NEW YEAR - COMPLIMENTS OF THE BARD (AND ALL OF US)

BEST NEW YEAR

To all in NL spellbound stand:
Lang may yer big lum reek.*
Long life and warmth to hand,
Good health, and joy at peak.

We’re better blest than all the rest:
We’ve freedom and fresh air -
We’ve space, and room to quest.
Of those, make greatest care.

Not oppressed, perhaps ass-prest,
Bullets, we seldom fear -
We’re Royalty, it’s manifest,
So have the best New Year.

John Tuach
December 28, 2017


*   “long may your chimney smoke” - an old Scottish New Year greeting given with the symbolic gift of a lump of coal. With the gift of a birch junk, the greeting could become popular in NL.