BEST
NEW YEAR
To
all in NL spellbound stand:
Lang
may yer big lum reek.*
Long
life and warmth to hand,
Good
health, and joy at peak.
We’re
better blest than all the rest:
We’ve
freedom and fresh air -
We’ve
space, and room to quest.
Of
those, make greatest care.
Not
oppressed, perhaps ass-prest,
Bullets,
we seldom fear -
We’re
Royalty, it’s manifest,
So
have the best New Year.
John
Tuach
December
28, 2017
* “long may your chimney smoke” - an old
Scottish New Year greeting given with the symbolic gift of a lump of coal. With
the gift of a birch junk, the greeting could become popular in NL.
