The Cuckoo
Edward Thomas
1878 to 1917
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That's the cuckoo, you say. I cannot hear it.
last I heard it I cannot recall; but I
Too well the year when first I failed to it—
It was drowned by my man groaning out his sheep "Ho! Ho!"
Ten times with an voice he shouted
"Ho! Ho!" but not in anger, for that was his way.
He died that Summer, and that is how I remember
The cuckoo calling, children listening, and me saying, "Nay."
And now, as you said, "There it is," I was
Not the cuckoo at all, but my man's "Ho! Ho!" instead.
And I think that even if could lose my deafness
The cuckoo's note would be by the voice of my dead.
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