He loved to hear them coo, and so did the little old monk.

The dove says coo, coo, what shall I do?

We'll follow the brook, whatever way The brook shall sing, or the sun shall say, Or the mothering wood-dove coos!

"Ou ay," he at length replied; "you're a' keen aneuch to get me anither wife, but no yin o' ye offers to gie me anither coo.

The cushat stands Amid the topmost boughs, with azure vest, And neck aslant, listening the amorous coo Of her, his mate, who, with maternal wing Wide-spread, sits brooding on opponent tree.

I saw her float bob under, and started up, rushed to her, and taught her how to strike and play it, though it turned out when landed to be nothing but a tiny barbel: but she was in ecstasies, holding it on her palm, murmuring her fond coo.

The hedge-banks were gay as flower gardens; the swifts chased each other, screaming harsh delight; the ring-dove murmured in the wood beneath his world-old song, which she had taught the children a hundred times "Curuckity coo, curuck coo; You love me, and I love you!"

And I answer "A-coo, Ustey with your bitter cold; U-ga-sha, my love of old.

A butterfly sometimes may chance In heedless play to flutter hither And stop in momentary trance Where the narcissus blossoms wither; A dove that through the grove has flown Above this dell no more will utter Her coo, one can but hear her flutter And see her shadow on the stone.

When all the breathless woods aloof Lie hushed in noontide's deep repose The dove, sun-warmed on yonder roof, With what a grave content she coos!