Spring
By William Shakespeare
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he,
Cuckoo;
Cuckoo, cuckoo: Oh word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!
When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,
And merry larks are plowmen’s clocks,
When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,
And maidens bleach their summer smocks,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he,
Cuckoo;
Cuckoo, cuckoo: Oh word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!
We'll never know who Shakespeare is as the only record of him is his baptismal.
Keeping with the Shakespeare theme and Macbeth, there's another Irish Home Rule cartoon in today's Punch. The only witch I can identify is the then Prime Minister Lord Salisbury.
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Thu 26 Mar, 2015 08:10 am
Good morning from strange weather in our Florida Radio Station.
Hurry back, edgar/mark. Had no idea that Tyrone Power did Blood and Sand.
Punch man, What a surprise to realize that those are male witches making Irish Stew. Shouldn't they be called Warlocks?
Here's a great classical piece for the morning here: