tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post457945023742247693..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: sad, rugby, pigeonsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-26577919894444930282011-03-22T17:14:42.443+00:002011-03-22T17:14:42.443+00:00There is a pair of mourning dove that nest in one ...There is a pair of mourning dove that nest in one of my trees, who make the lovliest sound: coo, coo, coo-di-di-coo, coo. (Or so it sounds to my ears.)The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-85574964709773373522011-03-22T15:45:26.358+00:002011-03-22T15:45:26.358+00:00I think we just have to accept the fact that our v...I think we just have to accept the fact that our vocal arrangements are far removed from those of pigeons. What I tried to confine myself to commenting on is the sound at the end of the repeated phrase. Thanks for the carol.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-88644077844142596592011-03-22T12:48:00.420+00:002011-03-22T12:48:00.420+00:00Dredged up from memories at least 65 years old. It...Dredged up from memories at least 65 years old. It isn't an accurate rendering of the sound you were looking for but I hope you're comforted by the fact that you're not the first to have had a go. Now I re-read it I find the surrounding text rather horrible. Perhaps it has oddity value.<br /><br />The Bird's Carol<br />Traditional Czech Carol<br />Translation by Percy Dearmer<br /><br />From out of a wood did a cuckoo fly,<br />Cuckoo.<br />He came to a manger with joyful cry,<br />Cuckoo;<br />He hopped, he curtsied, round he flew,<br />And loud his jubilation grew,<br />Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo.<br /><br />A pidgeon flew over to Galilee,<br />Vrercroo<br />He strutted, and cooed, and was full of glee,<br />Vrercroo<br />And showed with jewelled wings unfurled,<br />His joy that Christ was in the world,<br />Vrercroo, vrercroo, vrercroo.<br /><br />A dove settled down upon Nazareth,<br />Tsucroo.<br />And tenderly chanted with all his breath,<br />Tsucroo.<br />"O you," he cooed, "so good and true,<br />My beauty do I give to you –<br />Tsucroos, Tsucroo, Tsucroo."Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com