Yule Tree carol (Pagan) by me.
Dec. 19th, 2005 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mniThis one wanted to go with the tune from Gartan Mother's Lullaby (granted, the accents and syllable aren't exactly the same, but there's not enough of a difference to post a new ABC file).
The Tree of Life, it has roots so deep, they grow within our souls.
Its trunk is our spine and strength, and grace when trouble calls.
Oh, spirits fill its branches high and sing into the night
And every leaf, so ever green is tipped with stars so bright.
Oh, gather around this little tree, our Earthly kith and kin.
Leave your worries in the past and let your joy begin.
One year is over, and still the next, it is not yet_ begun
And so we gather around this tree while songs of hope are sung.
[Edited to add (meme from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tinyturtle):
You are the Christmas Dove.
What Christmas Ornament are you?
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One of the first Christmas Folk traditions my mother taught me was that it's good luck to have a bird ornament in your tree, and really good luck for the new year if you find a real bird's nest in your tree, when you bring it indoors (this is from the days when people cut down their trees from the forest -- goes back to that whole "Tree of Life" thing, and the connection between the Winter Solstice and the coming Spring Equinox). I was nearly a year old at my first Christmas, and one of my earliest memories is looking up, enthralled, at a dove ornament with a tail of nylon fibers tiped with sparklies. So I like this result -- even if I think the Christian interpretation is only part of the story.]
The Tree of Life, it has roots so deep, they grow within our souls.
Its trunk is our spine and strength, and grace when trouble calls.
Oh, spirits fill its branches high and sing into the night
And every leaf, so ever green is tipped with stars so bright.
Oh, gather around this little tree, our Earthly kith and kin.
Leave your worries in the past and let your joy begin.
One year is over, and still the next, it is not yet_ begun
And so we gather around this tree while songs of hope are sung.
[Edited to add (meme from
tinyturtle): You are the Christmas Dove.
What Christmas Ornament are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
One of the first Christmas Folk traditions my mother taught me was that it's good luck to have a bird ornament in your tree, and really good luck for the new year if you find a real bird's nest in your tree, when you bring it indoors (this is from the days when people cut down their trees from the forest -- goes back to that whole "Tree of Life" thing, and the connection between the Winter Solstice and the coming Spring Equinox). I was nearly a year old at my first Christmas, and one of my earliest memories is looking up, enthralled, at a dove ornament with a tail of nylon fibers tiped with sparklies. So I like this result -- even if I think the Christian interpretation is only part of the story.]
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Date: 2005-12-19 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-20 03:58 am (UTC)Here are the original lyrics to that lullaby:
Sleep, O babe, for the red bee hums
The silent twilight's fall.
Eeval (Aoibheal) from the Grey Rock comes
To wrap the earth in thrall.
A lin (lyan) van o, my child, my joy,
My love and heart's desire,
The crickets sing you lullaby
Beside the dying fire.
Dusk is drawn, and the Green Man's thorn
Is wreathed in rings of fog.
Sheevra sail's his boat til morn,
Upon the starry bog.
A lin (Lyan) van o, the paly moon
Hath brimmed her cusp in dew,
And weeps to hear the sad sleep-tune
I sing, O love, to you
Words are by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil, and the tune is from County Donegal.
(Info gotten from The Mudcat Forum)