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текст песни Drive the cold winter away/In Praise of Christmas
I
All hail to the days that merit more praise
Than all the rest of the year,
And welcome the nights that double delights
As well for the poor as the peer!
Good fortune attend each merry man’s friend,
That doth but the best that he may;
Forgetting old wrongs, with carols and songs,
To drive the cold winter away.
II
‘Tis ill for a mind to anger inclined
To think of small injuries now;
If wrath be to seek do not lend her thy cheek
Nor let her inhabit thy brow.
Cross out of thy books malevolent looks,
Both beauty and youth’s decay,
And wholly consort with mirth and with sport
To drive the cold winter away.
III
This time of the year is spent in good cheer,
And neighbours together do meet
To sit by the fire, with friendly desire,
Each other in love to greet;
Old grudges forgot are put in the pot,
All sorrows aside they lay;
The old and the young doth carol this song
To drive the cold winter away.
IV
When Christmas’s tide come in like a bride
With holly and ivy clad,
Twelve days in the year much mirth and good cheer
In every household is had;
The country guise is then to devise
Some gambols of Christmas play,
Whereat the young men do best that they can
To drive the cold winter away.
Ontano MagicoChristmas Carols: Топ 3
| 1. | Jingle Bells |
| 2. | Carol Of The Bells |
| 3. | Stille Nacht |
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Per salutare i 12 giorni del Natale (e soprattutto le notti) e per scacciare fuori il freddo inverno, un canto natalizio della tradizione inglese risalente all’epoca elisabettiana noto anche con i titoli “In Praise of Christmas” o “All Hail to the Days” un invito a trascorrere il periodo natalizio (che nel Medioevo era fissato in 12 giorni) in modo festoso e spensierato, tra lauti banchetti e divertimenti in buona compagnia.
Il testo è tratto dalla Collezione Roxburghe (sono 5 libri in 4 volumi con 1500 ballate pubblicate in inglese dal 1567 al 1790, oggi al British Library). L’autore è anonimo e il testo viene datato intorno al 1625. A volte è erroneamente attribuito a Tom Durfey (1653-1723). Riportato anche in A Christmas Garland A.H. Bullen – Londra 1885 e in All Hail to the Days, Broadside del XVII sec.
continua in http://terreceltiche.altervista.org/drive-the-cold-winter-away/