New Year is a'comin

[Bird Legs]

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying clouds, 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.
Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892

[sea-tax]

Bird is it not Alfred Lord Tennyson? or is that another writer?

[Bird Legs]

sea-tax

you are correct. Just left out part of name, too tired to do much today.
He also wrote one of my all time favorites: CROSSING THE BAR
Sunset and evening star,
and one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

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For though from out our bourne of Time
and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.

[sea-tax]

Hey whatsdo ya know I remmembered something from my high school lit class.

[Bird Legs]

Another great one

The Sayings of Poor Richard
"Early to bed and early to rise,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
"Eat to live, and not live to eat."
"He that spills the Rum loses that only:
He that drinks it, often loses both that
and himself"

Or how about this one by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1855-1919
The wise men ask, "What language did Christ speak?"
They cavil, argue, search, and little prove,
O Sages, leave your Syriac and your Greek!
Christ spoke the universal language-love.