‘Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!’ calling,

Ere the early dews were falling,

Farre away I heard her song.

‘Cusha! Cusha!’ all along;

Where the reedy Lindis floweth,

Floweth, floweth,

From the meads where melick groweth

Faintly came her milking song,—

‘Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!’ calling,

‘For the dews will soone be falling;