Happy New Year
Today is New Year’s Eve. Tonight there will be parties all across the country in celebration of the coming new year, and at the stroke of midnight, millions of people will sing “Auld Lang Syne.” The lyrics to the song were first written down by the poet Robert Burns, but the song actually comes from Scottish oral tradition. The Scottish title can be translated to mean “old long ago” or “time long past” or simply “the good old days.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote, “The year is going, let him go; ring out the false, ring in the true.”
From the Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor
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