Today is Boxing Day. Next week on this day we will already be in a new year, Jan. 2, 2009. Many will have sung Auld Lang Syne, or part of it, on New Years’ Eve.
But there is another song, now lost, which was sung in England along with Burns’ well-known poem. If memory serves correctly, it goes something like the following:
I saw the old homesteads and faces I loved,
I saw England’s valleys and dells.
I listened with joy as I did when a boy,
to the sound of the old village bells.
The log was burning brightly,