WITH Windflower now and Daffodil
That bird they call Cuckoo
Goes shouting now o’er vale and hill
His Allelu —
Alleluia!
He feasts him on the Cuckoo’s-meat,
The Wood-sorrel so new;
And shouts his grace ere he doth eat —
His Allelu —
Alleluia!
Sith Christ hath left the wormy grave
The world ’s in green and blue;
This clerk sings piously his stave —
His Allelu —
Alleluia!
Up hearts! for Jesus Christ His sake,
Who by His dying slew
Both sin and death. Here’s one awake
Calls Allelu —
Alleluia!