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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
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“to modernize is to destroy.”
― Arthur Quilller-Couch, THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE

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“1. Cuckoo Song SUMER is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu-- Sing cuccu! Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu; Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth, Murie sing cuccu! Cuccu, cuccu, well singes thu, cuccu: Ne swike thu naver nu; Sing cuccu, nu, sing cuccu, Sing cuccu, sing cuccu, nu! lhude] loud. awe] ewe. lhouth] loweth. sterteth] leaps. swike] cease.”
― Arthur Quilller-Couch, THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE

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