Auld Lang Syne

First light. January 1, 2011.

“We meet today, To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.” ~John Greenleaf Whittier

“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.”  ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.”  ~George William Curtis

“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.”  ~Brooks Atkinson

“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.” ~Charles Lamb

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.” ~T.S. Elliot