Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: SPRING, by THOMAS NASHE



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First Line: Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king
Last Line: Spring! The sweet spring!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1)
Variant Title(s): Spring Song;the Birds In Spring;song Of Ver And His Train;spring
Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Nature; Spring; Dead, The


Spring, the sweet spring, is the year'''s pleasant king,
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing:
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!


The palm and may make country houses gay,
Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,
And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay:

Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,
In every street these tunes our ears do greet:
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo!
Spring, the sweet spring!





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