Monday 31 December 2018

New Year's Eve, Fifty Years Ago



We twa hae paidl’d in the burn, 
Frae mornin' sun till dine; 
But seas between us braid hae roar’d 
Sin' auld lang syne.

(Burns)


Castle Cary, Somerset, 31st December, 1968



Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,

The flying cloud, the frosty light

The year is dying in the night;

Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.



Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.


(Tennyson)


Castle Cary, Summertime:


                       





The answer? Not a lot!
 Revising a paper for publication - have to meet a deadline.



"Farewell, wold year!"



(William Barnes)


See also:


Dorset Museum - "Framed drawing of William Barnes, by Benjamin Fossett Lock as a New Year card, 1887. Kept by Thomas Hardy in his study".













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