The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10914   Message #78639
Posted By: Philippa
15-May-99 - 05:23 AM
Thread Name: Cuckoos
Subject: RE: Cuckoos
for LEJ, in partly modernised English: Summer is a comin' in
Loudly sing cuckoo
Groweth seed and bloweth mead and springeth wood anew.
Sing cuckoo, sing cuckoo well sings the cuckoo...
Oh cease thee never now

a madrigal, a round/anyway it is in the DT as "Sumer is icumen in, but I typed what's in my head rather than look it

and the Fourth day of July significance??