new year's day

Happy new year to everyone.
This is a green man we have above the front door.

'I am the face in the leaves,
I am the laughter in the forest,
I am the king in the wood.
And I am the blade of grass
That thrusts through the stone-cold clay
At the death of winter.
I am before and I am after,
I am always until the end
I am the face in the forest,
I am the laughter in the leaves.'

- Mike Harding, A Little Book of The Green Man