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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Anonymous. c. 1250
1. Cuckoo Song
SUMER is icumen in, | |
Lhude sing cuccu! | |
Groweth sed, and bloweth med, | |
And springth the wude nu— | |
Sing cuccu! | 5 |
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Awe bleteth after lomb, | |
Lhouth after calve cu; | |
Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth, | |
Murie sing cuccu! | |
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Cuccu, cuccu, well singes thu, cuccu: | 10 |
Ne swike thu naver nu; | |
Sing cuccu, nu, sing cuccu, | |
Sing cuccu, sing cuccu, nu! | |
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GLOSS: lhude] loud. awe] ewe. lhouth] loweth. sterteth] leaps. swike] cease. |