Tuesday 29 April 2008

Sumer Is Icumen In

Summer has come in,
Loudly sing, Cuckoo!
The seed grows and the meadow blooms
And the wood springs anew,
Sing, Cuckoo!

The ewe bleats after the lamb,
The cow lows after the calf.
The bullock stirs, the buck-goat turns,
Merrily sing, Cuckoo!

Cuckoo, cuckoo, well you sing, cuckoo;
Don't you ever stop now,
Sing cuckoo now. Sing, Cuckoo.
Sing Cuckoo. Sing cuckoo now!

So, tomorrow is Beltaine (Celts reckoned days from sundown to sundown), the traditional beginning of summer. Here we'll be having a big bonfire... may the earth be renewed!

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