III
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of New-Year's Eve
Last May we made a crown of flowers: we had a merry day;
Beneath the hawthorn on the green they made me Queen of May;
And we danced about the maypole and in the hazel-copse,
Till Charles's wain came out above the tall white chimneytops.