Talk:Wexford Carol

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Copyright status

The search bot is not in error, but that's because these are song lyrics to a public domain song. Therefore, no copyright infringement exists. I cited the webpage which was the source of the lyrics, and it is not the one which the bot found. --CaesarGJ 01:27, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's maybe not quite so simple: The Oxford Book of Carols (1928) contains the text _as revised by_ the editors. The New Oxford Book of Carols uses the 1982 version in The Wexford Carols ed. Ô Muirthe, and refers to the 1904 appearance of "four-and-a-half verses" in Old Castleton Christmas Carols (ed. Swahcross). It would be worth someone's while to do some more checking. I can report that 1982 has "But hark how all things come to pass" instead of "But mark right well what came to pass", but that doesn't mean the later is necessarily PD, let alone as old as the 12th century. :-] Sparafucil (talk) 21:31, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a corrected, more reasonable version

Iohana4 (talk) 10:08, 21 December 2020 (UTC)Corrected, more reasonable version:[reply]

Good people all, this Solstice time,
Consider well and bear in mind
What our good Earth for us has done
In bearing us, for finite Time.
With love and care, this Solstice Day,
Come heal the wounds and stop decay,
On Terraship, shadows and lights
Still offer hope for Peace, not fights.

Justification: We need peaceful Reason, not damaging illusion. Happy terrasolstice day.s (instead of false-religious ones)! epigonii corupti se-narmeaza, dementi, contra pacii iubite de drepti si desculti Vivat Homo Cosmoterrasophus! One-stone for Com-peace. https://ioananoemytoma.wixsite.com/ethicalterrahumanism/single-post/de-coding-one-stone-einstein-finite-life-energy-is-love-m-of-shared-culture Less toxicity for terraprotectivity. Panarchy, not vote. Pangratuity, not money etc. Iohana4 (talk) 10:08, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Iohana4: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. We report what reliable sources have published. We don't make our own songs. If we did then it would no longer be the Wexford Carol. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:57, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]