Song

Summer is icummen in
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springeth wde nu
Sing cuccu!
Awe bleteh after lombe
Lhouth after calve cu.
Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth
Murie sing cuccu!

Cuccu, cuccu,
Well singes thu cuccu
Ne swik thu naver nu!

Summer is Icummen In, Middle English song.

The piece is drawn on stiff white paper (8.27 in x 11.69 in) in red, yellow and black inks, with the first line of the song writ large in the centre and the rest of the words written around it in blocks with some of the letters coloured red or yellow.