Repeat that, repeat,	
Cuckoo, bird, and open ear wells, heart-springs, delightfully sweet,	
With a ballad, with a ballad, a rebound	
Off trundled timber and scoops of the hillside ground, hollow hollow hollow ground:	
The whole landscape flushes on a sudden at a sound.

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Text Authorship:

• by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), no title, appears in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, first published 1918 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Jacob Druckman (b. 1928), "Antiphonies I" [ 2 SATB choruses a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by David M. Epstein (1930 - 2002), "Cuckoo", published 1964 [ soprano, horn, and strings ], from Four Songs [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Heinz Füssl (b. 1924), "Concerto Rapsodico", published 1964 [ mezzo-soprano or alto and chamber orchestra ], Wien: Universal Editions [sung text not yet checked]

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