It's grey again today and, if you ask me, it's time for sunshine and flowers. This gorgeous New Yorker cover seems to agree. Today, for some reason, I've been thinking back to my medieval literature class where we all learned to sing "Sumer is icumen in." Perhaps because sumer hardly seems to be icumen in, I've been quietly humming the song to myself today. It was so much fun, I thought you too should sing along. Click here for the merry tune and here for the lyrics in Middle English. Get a bunch of friends and sing it as a round. Depending on how this week shakes out, you might want to use Ezra Pound's lyrics.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Thinking back to my medieval lit survey with a bit of irony
It's grey again today and, if you ask me, it's time for sunshine and flowers. This gorgeous New Yorker cover seems to agree. Today, for some reason, I've been thinking back to my medieval literature class where we all learned to sing "Sumer is icumen in." Perhaps because sumer hardly seems to be icumen in, I've been quietly humming the song to myself today. It was so much fun, I thought you too should sing along. Click here for the merry tune and here for the lyrics in Middle English. Get a bunch of friends and sing it as a round. Depending on how this week shakes out, you might want to use Ezra Pound's lyrics.
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