Word: icumen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baring-Gould, who was a promotion writer at Time Inc. until his death last month, did his scholarly best to establish the limerick in early English tradition, with versions that reach back to the first modern lyric-"Sumer is icumen in"-but the classic limerick goes back no further than the work of Non sense Master Edward Lear, who, with British understatement, always wrote a clean, rug-pulling last line. Lear might have improved the popular appeal of his work if he had been able to follow the advice of Don Marquis on the proper quality of the limerick...
...Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cueeu...