1. When daisies pied
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When daisies pied and violets blue
[And lady-smocks all silver white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue,]1
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo, then on ev'ry tree
Mocks married men, for thus sings he,
Cuckoo,
Cuckoo, cuckoo: o word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear.
When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,
And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks,
[When]2 turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,
And maidens bleach their summer [smocks]3,
The cuckoo, then on ev'ry tree
Mocks married men, for thus sings he,
Cuckoo,
Cuckoo, cuckoo: o word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear.
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1 Stravinsky: reversed.
2 Arne: "And"
3 Arne: "frocks"
2. When icicles hang by the wall
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When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
When blood is nipt and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tuwhoo! Tuwhit! Tuwhoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw;
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl
Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tuwhoo! Tuwhit! Tuwhoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Input by Clive Robinson
3. If she be made of white and red
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If she be made of white and red,
Her faults will ne'er be known,
For blushing cheeks by faults are bred
And fears by pale white shown:
Then if she fear, or be to blame,
By this you shall not know,
For still her cheeks possess the same
Which native she doth owe.
A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of
white and red.
4. Is it not sure a deadly pain
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Is it not sure a deadly pain
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