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 Every Tree, Mocks Married Men.

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 Every Tree, Mocks Married Men.

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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 every tree,
Mocks married men.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Love's Labour 's Lost
-- Act v, Sc. 2

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