Songs For All Seasons

The lucky Scots get two Bank Holidays for New Year - the 1st AND the 2nd of January. So today's Song of the Day is another New Year's Day-themed song. It is a setting of a poem called, rather unimaginatively, "New Year's Day" by Canadian poet Thomas Frederick Young. I can find little information online about this particular poet other than that he was Canadian, a poet and author, and died in 1940.  So, with nothing more to say, I will wish you all a Happy New Year in the poet's own words: "A happy, happy, bright New Year, I wish to all the sons of men, With happy hearts, and merry cheer, Till it has roll'd its round again." New Year's Day By Thomas Frederick Young Hail! joyous morn. Hail! happy day, That ushers in another year, Fraught with what sorrow, none can say, Nor with what pain, to mortals here. Another year has roll'd away, With all its sorrows, joys and fears, But still the light of hope's glad ray, Yet beams within our hear...

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you are not too worse for weather after the celebrations of last night. Today's Song of the Day is the first of two New Year's Day themed songs. it is a setting of a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox called "New Year Resolve". On the theme of new year, new life, new hope, it exhorts the reader to put behind them errors and failures of the past and press on with a new hope in the new year. New Year Resolve By Ella Wheeler Wilcox As the dead year is clasped by a dead December, So let your dead sins with your dead days lie. A new life is yours and a new hope.Remember We build our own ladders to climb to the sky. Stand out in the sunlight of promise, forgetting Whatever the past held of sorrow and wrong. We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. Have you missed in your aim? Well, the mark is still shining. Did you faint in the race? Well, take breath for the next. Did the clouds drive you back? ...