V

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

He thought I was a ghost, mother, for I was all in white,

And I ran by him without speaking like a flash o' light

They call me cruelhearted, but I care not what they say,

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

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