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The Praise of Solstice

from Live on Midwinter's Day by The Silver Twiglets

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All hail to the days that merit more praise
than all of 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 does but the best that he may,
Forgetting old wrongs with carols 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 thy cheek
nor let it inhabit thy brow.
Cross out of thy books malevolent looks
both beauty and youth's decay
And wholly consort with mirth and with sport
to drive the cold winter away.

This time of the year is pent in good cheer
and neighbours together do meet.
To sit by the fire in friendly desire
each other in love to greet.
Old grudges forgot are put in the pot
all sorrow aside they lay.
The old and the young doth carol this song
to drive the cold winter away.

When solstice's tide comes in like a bride
with holly and ivy clad
Twelve days in the year much mirth and good cheer
in every household is had.
The country guise is then to devise
some gambols of Yuletide play
Whereat the young men do the best that they can
to drive the cold winter away.

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from Live on Midwinter's Day, released December 25, 2013
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Tim Hawthorn Glastonbury, UK

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Elder Bard of Ynys Witrin
Silver on the Tree
Avalonian Free State Choir
Invisible Opera
The Silver Twiglets
The Archetypes
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