To: Knitting A Conundrum
Well, yeah, three centuries later.
But the thirteenth century poems you were quoting seemed rather morose to me.
Heck, photos from a hundred years ago showed a dour, serious people. Maybe that's the norm, and our happy-go-lucky attitude is the aberration.
3,156 posted on
02/13/2006 9:53:08 PM PST by
NicknamedBob
(Well, we had Uncle Joe. Then we had our Uncle Ho. Now it looks like we have an Uncle Mo.)
To: NicknamedBob
The lyke wake dirge version I sent you was a 17th c version...probably goes back a goodly bit though.
Morose cause matches my mood.
There are cheerier pieces!
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 naver nu,
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!
3,160 posted on
02/13/2006 10:06:59 PM PST by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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