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By the way, the full text of “Sumer is icumen in” can also be found on the
Web, among other places on http://rowlf.cc.wwu.edu:8080/
~stephan/webstuff/poetry/Anonymou-SumerIsIcum.html
together with a second verse
which is not generally to be found in the Victorian text books.

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