When daisies pied - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, William Shakespeare, Thomas Arne

When daisies pied and violets blue

And lady-smocks all silver white

And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue

Do paint the meadows with delight

The cuckoo, then on ev’ry tree

Mocks married men, for thus sings he

Cuckoo

Cuckoo, cuckoo: o word of fear

Unpleasing to a married ear

When shepherds pipe on oaten straws

And merry larks are ploughmen’s clocks

And turtles tread, and rooks, and daws

And maidens bleach their summer frocks

The cuckoo, then on ev’ry tree

Mocks married men, for thus sings he

Cuckoo

Cuckoo, cuckoo: o word of fear

Unpleasing to a married ear