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:

O word of fear

Unpleasing to a married ear!

When shepherds pipe on oaten straws

And merry larks are ploughmen'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:

O word of fear

Unpleasing to a married ear!