Joyously and with a good swing.
Sum-mer is i-cum-en in
Loud-ly sing cuc-koo.
Grow-eth seed and blow-eth mead,
And springs the wood-land new.
Sing cuc-koo.
Ewe now bleat-eth af-ter lamb,
Low-eth af-ter calf the cow.
Bull-ock stert-eth. Buck now vert-eth,
Mer-ri-ly sing, Cuc-koo! Cuc-koo! Cuc-koo!
Thou sing’st well Cuc-koo,
Nor cease thou ne-ver now!
[Illustration: _Ruins of Chapter House, Reading Abbey._]
[Illustration: Map of central England and Wales showing the routes of
the Great Western Railway and highlighting some of the locations in
this book: Bisham Abbey (page 40), Littlecote Manor (page 48), Windsor
Forest (page 36), Guy’s Cliff (page 24), Stanton Drew (page 44), Wookey
Hole (page 20), Reading (page 52).]
[Illustration: Miniature of the front cover Illustration of Volume
Three: fairies tending a garden]