"Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu– Sing cuccu!"

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"Sumer is icumen in", line 1; Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (ed.) The Oxford Book of English Verse ([1900] 1912) p. 1. Translation: Lewis Turco The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics ([1968] 2000) p. 209.