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.