Yule Fires

Tune: Greensleeves

(What Child Is This?)

words by John G. MacKinnon

In ancient days the folk of old

When chilled with fright by winter's cold

Did kindle up a great Yule fire

With leaping flames in its great pyre;

So to entice the waning sun

To rise again and wider run;

It's fiery course across the sky,

To warm them so they would not die.

So we, whose minds now sense a chill

Of anger in the evil will,

The human conflict, hate, and strife,

Which hold a menace over life;

Would kindle up a flame of love

That we within our hearts may move,

In Yuletide joy, with love embrace

And thus abide in peace and grace.