waiting for Stella Jane to arrive—any day now

‘Cuckoo Song,’ of the thirteenth century, intended to be sung in harmony by four voices:

Sumer is icumen in;

Lhude sing, cuccu!

Groweth sed and bloweth med

And springth the wde 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 never nu.

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