The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away. They lighted candles in the winter trees; They hung their homes with evergreen; They burned beseeching fires all night long ToContinue reading “Yule”
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The ardent sun, from his long night of cloud….
‘The ardent sun, from his long night of cloud, Triumphantly arose–again to urge, Through heaven’s clear depths, above a smiling world, His dazzling car of fire, and lightning steeds.’ ** All Photographs © Shullie H Porter 2018 unless otherwise stated. ** The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-Sixth by Edwin Atherstone
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