Stone Melody

[Daniel Bump]

Will Layman wrote:

>Brian A:  No one else has mentioned this yet, so I will (though it is hardly
>original to me):  the lyrics at the end of GR fit the melody of (Oh, my God, I
>can't spell it) "Auld Lang Syne" (the New Year's Eve song).

I found an annotated lyric to this sentimental song of Robert Burns at
http://calligrafix.co.uk/burns/sosyne.html as part of a larger page
devoted to the poet at http://calligrafix.co.uk/burns/index.html .

>"There is a hand to turn the time,
>Though thy glass today be run,
>Till the light that hath brought the Towers low
>Find the last poor Pret'rite one...
>Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,
>All through our crippl'd Zone,
>With a face on ev'ry mountainside,
>And a soul in ev'ry stone...
>
>Now everybody "