We seemed to do OK with Chaucer in high school. I can still recall and recite some of it ... Whan that aprill with his shores soote, the droghte of march hath perced to the roote
Is that where this came from:
The spring has sprung,
The grass is ris.
I wonder where the boidies is?
The boid am on the wing.
But that's absoid.
I always thought the wing was on the boid!
I remember it from grade school. ;o)