Sports: Re: [DucatiST] CHRISTMAS GREETINGS!

Let's try something different:

BUON NATALE E FELICE ANNO NUOVO.

Francesco

--- In st2_owners@yahoogroups.com, Robert McNabb <rockingm_50remuda@...> wrote:
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> Merry Christmas to Y'all.
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> Robert McNabb
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> Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
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> --- On Sat, 12/25/10, Ronald Davidson <profrmdavidson@...> wrote:
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> From: Ronald Davidson <profrmdavidson@...>
> Subject: [DucatiST] CHRISTMAS GREETINGS!
> To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, December 25, 2010, 4:40 PM
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> Every Christmas, I recite to my family a section of the Franklins Tale from Chaucer's, The Canterbury Tales. It speaks of the sense of family and the poor weather and dim gray sky of the northern latitudes, made pleasant by company and the Yule fire.Â With a modern translation:
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> 1245 Â Â Â Â Phebus wax old, and hewed lyk laton,
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> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Phoebus grew old, and colored grayish silver,
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> 1246 Â Â Â Â That in his hoote declynacion
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> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â That in his hot declination (in summer)
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> 1247 Â Â Â Â Shoon as the burned gold with stremes brighte;
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> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Shone like burnished gold with bright rays;
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> 1248 Â Â Â Â But now in Capricorn adoun he lighte,
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> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â But now in Capricorn he alights down,
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> 1249 Â Â Â Â Where as he shoon ful pale, I dar wel seyn.
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> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Where he shone full pale, I dare well say.
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> 1250 Â Â Â Â The bittre frostes, with the sleet and reyn,
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> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The bitter frosts, with the sleet and rain,
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> 1251 Â Â Â Â Destroyed hath the grene in every yerd.
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> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Have destroyed the green in every garden.
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> 1252 Â Â Â Â Janus sit by the fyr, with double berd,
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> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Janus sits by the fire, with double beard,
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> 1253 Â Â Â Â And drynketh of his bugle horn the wyn;
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> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â And drinks the wine from his buffalo horn;
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> 1254 Â Â Â Â Biforn hym stant brawen of the tusked swyn,
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> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Before him stands meat of the tusked boar,
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> 1255 Â Â Â Â And "Nowel" crieth every lusty man.
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> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â And "Noel" cries every lusty man.
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> Merry Christmas to one and all.Â I hope we all have a fabulous new year.
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