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Quick challenge: name the poet and complete the passage.
Winter is icumin in
Lhude sing goddam...
Clues will be provided later if this is too obscure.
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Got it! Sending private so as not to spoil the search for others.
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PResume you found the original as well...?
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Got it, too. Now... whence cometh it? In other words, what is this a take-off on?
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according to my google, it is a parody of the Middle English "Cuckoo Song"...
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Those of us blessed enough to live at the top end of the world( yart gratia yartis), can use the original wording. I couldn't believe my luck when I saw this post - I have a great little book called The Oxford book of English Verse 1250-1918, in which all the poems are arranged chronolgically, and guess which one comes first - listed as circa 1226? 
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Max, Anna, tsuwm and co
The original is, by most accounts, a 'classic'. I simply wished to give some credit to the winter version, which I hesitate to call a parody purely because i) it is by a very distinguished poet, and ii) if you've ever lived in London, it makes profound sense...
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il miglior fabbro (not)
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There must be something wrong with my AP English/British Lit. class. According to this class the first English language poet was Caedmon and the first famous poet was Chaucer, neither of whom fit into the time frame.
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