Joyous tidings! Dance and sing!
Born, the sun, and with it, Spring!
Birth and rebirth, life’s delight:
in dark winter’s longest night
comes the spark of new year’s light.
Joyous tidings! Dance and sing!
Life’s bright flame shines through the cold,
now as in the days of old;
watch with joy as life unfolds.
Born, the sun, and with it, Spring!
Cast off hiberating ways
in these short and chill-filled days;
let us sing the warm sun’s praise!
Joyous tidings! Dance and sing!
From the hearth-fire grows the spark
to illuminate the dark;
a new calendar to mark.
Born, the sun, and with it, Spring!
As the old year finds its end,
time’s wheel comes around again;
enters stranger, leaves as friend.
Joyous tidings! Dance and sing!
Joyous tidings! Dance and sing!
Born, the sun, and with it, Spring!
28 NOV 2010
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Carol (carole): a joyous hymn originally consisting of a two-line burden or texte couplet (AA) and any number of quatrain stanzas rhyming bbba.