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7 “Cuckoo Song”

Unknown Author

A Lyric Poem

Summer is a-coming in,

Sing loud Cuckoo!

Groweth seed, and bloweth mead

And springeth the woode noo

Sing Cuckoo!                                                       5

 

Ewe bleatheth after lamb,

Lows for her calf coo;

Bullock sterteth, buck verteth,

Merry sing Cuckoo!

 

Cuckoo, Cuckoo, well sing’st thou Cuckoo:           10

So cease thou never noo.

Sing Cuckoo, noo, sing Cuckoo!

 

Source:

“Cuckoo Song” [PDF] edited by Bonnie J. Robinson, Ph.D. and Laura J. Getty, Ph.D. from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism [PDF] licensed under CC BY-SA

Cite this Chapter:

“Cuckoo Song.” Transatlantic Literature and Premodern Worlds, edited by Marissa Nicosia, et al., Pressbooks, 2025, psu.pb.unizin.org/opentransatlanticlit/chapter/cuckcoo-song/.

 

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