Christmas Day is the first of the Twelve Days of Christmas celebrated in the well-known song. This song probably originates in France but the first English version dates from about AD 1250. The song was a festive memory game with players taking turns to sing a verse and forfeits if words were forgotten.
Wishing all my blogging friends a very merry Christmas.
I HAD for my winter evening walk
No one at all with whom to talk,
But I had the cottages in a row
Up to their shining eyes in snow.
And I thought I had the folk within:
I had the sound of a violin;
I had a glimpse through curtain laces
Of youthful forms and youthful faces.
I had such company outward bound.
I went till there were no cottages found.
I turned and repented, but coming back
I saw no window but that was black.
Over the snow my creaking feet
Disturbed the slumbering village street
Like profanation, by your leave,
At ten o’clock of a winter eve.–Robert Frost
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
If there is a path it is someone else’s path and you are not on the adventure.
– Joseph Campbell
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
– John Keats, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
– William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
-Mother Theresa
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