Hi everyone!
The turning of the calendar from one year to the next has always been a time for summing up past experience, bidding farewell to those we have lost, renewing old friendships, making plans and resolutions, and expressing our hopes for the future...
In Sweden we always listen to the following poem when the clock strikes 12 on New Year's Eve. Do you know it?
Ring Out, Wild Bells
from In
Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1849)
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.....
And for those of you who want to practice your Swedish... here is the poem in Swedish: |
!Sweden and Spain!
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