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16th century(1727)(c. 1791)(1872)as quoted in Aspirations and Mentoring in an Academic Environment by Mary Niles Maack and Joanne Passet (1994)Related Subjects
spring (16) cold, the (10) autumn (6) night (4) weather (4) birds (3) wind (3) snow (3) nature (3) ice (3)
Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweth sed, and bloweth med,
And springth the wude nu--
Sing cuccu!
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweth sed, and bloweth med,
And springth the wude nu--
Sing cuccu!
Anonymous. Cuckoo Song (c. 1250).
This hymn is still sung annually at Reading Abbey, England. Ezra Pound's Ancient Music was a pastiche of this (originally dropped from the 1916 edition of Lustra when it was considered offensive, later reinstated): Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm.
This hymn is still sung annually at Reading Abbey, England. Ezra Pound's Ancient Music was a pastiche of this (originally dropped from the 1916 edition of Lustra when it was considered offensive, later reinstated): Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm.
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