ConstantOrbit on Nostr: And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of ...

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
To keep the year alive.

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#solstice