III
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The May Queen
I sleep so sound all night, mother, that I shall never wake,
If you do not call me loud when the day begins to break:
But I must gather knots of flowers, and buds and garlands gay,
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.