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    What makes "Auld Lang Syne" so powerful?

    -This song, loved and sung around the world, is thought to be partially composed by an unknown Scottish bard in days, as its most famous refrain says, "old long since." Today we would say (less poetically) long, long ago or days gone by.

    We don't know how old the song is. Scotland's most famous poet, Robert Burns (popularly credited as the song's author), claimed to have discovered "Auld Lang Syne" in the late 1700's and transcribed it as an old lowland Scot sang it for him. There may be truth to this, though it appears Burns improved the lyrics.

    What makes "Auld Lang Syne" so powerful? It has nothing to do with a New Year and everything to do with an old friend. It is a tribute toast to treasured time spent roaming rolling Scottish hills and swimming stony Scottish streams with a cherished childhood companion.
    The Treasure of Old Friendship

    A new year may be a good time for new resolutions, but the ending of an old year is a good time for reflection on what has past. And I don't mean merely lesson-learning reflection for future improvement. Some reflection is meant simply to treasure with gratitude what we were once given and will never have in the same way again.

    Old friendship is that sort of treasure. Few gifts in life are as precious as companions with whom we once spent long summer days and talked long into the night; with whom we shared thrilling adventures and disastrous mishaps; with whom we bent over in convulsive laughter and sat silently in tearful loss; in whom we confided the hopes and fears of our youthful years...

    http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/auld-lang-syne

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    I hate that song

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    Beautiful version!

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