The Birds

Cuckoo!

From out of a wood did a cuckoo fly,

He came to a manger with joyful cry;

He hopped, he curtsied, round he flew,

And loud his jubilation grew!

Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo!

A pigeon flew over Galilee,

He strutted and cooed and was full of glee,

And showed with jeweled wings unfurled,

His joy that Christ was in the world,

Vrecroo, Vrecroo, Vrecroo.

A dove settled down on Nazareth,

And tenderly chanted with all his breath;

"O you," he cooed, "so good and true,

My beauty do I give to you Tsucroo!"