Sumer is icumen in
Acrylic ink on dyed paper with wooden frames
17.75" x 17.75" / 23.75" x 15" / 38" x 15" / 25" x 30" / 20.25" x 22.75" / 21.5" x 15.25"
(going down on life after death)
Summer has arrived,
Loudly sing, Cuckoo!
The seed grows and the meadow blooms
And the wood springs anew,
Sing, Cuckoo!
The ewe bleats after the lamb
The cow lows after the calf.
The bullock stirs, the stag farts,
Merrily sing, Cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo, well you sing, cuckoo;
Don't ever you stop now,
Sing cuckoo now. Sing, Cuckoo.
Sing cuckoo now! Sing cuckoo!
Sumer is icumen in
(Summer has arrived)
(Anonymous medieval round, Middle English translated into Modern.)
(Documentation: Tom Van Eynde)