II

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The May Queen

There's many a black black eye, they say, but none so bright as mine:

There's Margaret and Mary, there's Kate and Caroline:

But none so fair as little Alice in all the land, they say,

So I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.

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