Reverdie (a song of spring that for us, welcomes summer)
captured by this ancient poem and round. The first version uses reproduction instruments:
Middle English or this Creative Commons round version.
Svmer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
Awe bleteþ after lomb,
Lhouþ after calue cu.
Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ,
Murie sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes þu, cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Pes:
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!
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Visit the British Library website for an illuminated sheet exhibit of this early song. The flowers are flax from PW's garden.
MinxterBloom
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Ah, its been too long since I visited. What a gorgeous garden you have. I love the Nigella, I have flax out there somewhere, but flax is a high summer flower here.
Not that I am envious, mind. Hardly at all.