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The Cuckoo Song

November 4, 2005 in animals, anonymous, seasons | Leave a comment

Sing, cuccu, nu. Sing, cuccu.
Sing, cuccu. Sing, cuccu, nu.

Sumer is i-cumen in –
Lhude sing, cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springth the wude nu.
Sing, cuccu!

Awe bleteth after lomb,
Lhouth after calve cu,
Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth —
Murie sing, cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu.
Wel singes thu, cuccu.
Ne swik thu naver nu!

bloweth = blooms
med = field
springeth = buds
Lhouth = lows
cu = cow
sterteth = leaps
verteth = farts

*Written c. 1250AD