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A Blessed Yule To All, This Shortest Day Of The Year! [1]
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Date: 2022-12-21
The Shortest Day, by Susan Cooper
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us—listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome, Yule!
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Let us all take this sacred day to reflect upon our lives this past year, and those best wishes for our future days to yet unfold: To celebrate the days becoming longer, and our personal journey out of the darkness, and into the light once again!
Peace Be With You!
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