I shall probably not be awake at midnight, so let me wish everyone a happy new year now. Since one of my abiding memories of 2015 is singing Auld Lang Syne, stone cold sober, in the early afternoon in an Edinburgh University lecture theatre at the EAHIL workshop, I offer below Auld Lang Syne in Latin, by a Canadian Latinist, Harry C Maynard.
Num amicorum veterum
decet oblivisci?
Annorum heu fugacium
et temporis acti?
CHORUS
Actum, sodales, ob tempus
praeteritum tempus,
priusquam discesserimus,
manus iungamus.
Flores olim decerpsimus
ludentes in pratis,
sed aspera peragravimus
diebus ex illis.
CHORUS
Et agebamus vacuos
dies ad rivulum;
sed dividit iam diu nos
aequor undosum.
CHORUS
I discovered this at http://gaudium-mundo.blogspot.co.uk/2006/12/auld-lang-syne.html and the original translation, with others, may be found at http://www.poslarchive.com/math/misc/latin-carols.html
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