The First Carol
SUMMER is y-comen in!Loud sing cuckoo!Groweth seed and bloweth mead,And springeth the wood new.Sing cuckoo! cuckoo!
Ewe bleateth after lamb,Loweth cow after calf;Bullock starteth, buck verteth;Merry sing cuckoo!Cuckoo! cuckoo!Nor cease thou ever now.Sing cuckoo now!Sing cuckoo!
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 1552–1618