VI

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

They say he's dying all for love, but that can never be:

They say his heart is breaking, mother—what is that to me?

There's many a bolder lad 'ill woo me any summer day,

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

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