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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!