Mirie it is while sumer ilast (13th century English song)
Author: John Chivers via YouTube Go to Source "Mirie it is while sumer ilast" (often translated as "Merry it is while summer lasts") is one of the earliest surviving secular songs in the English language, with both lyrics and musical notation. It survives in a single manuscript source: a damaged parchment flyleaf (Bodleian Library MS … Read more