VII

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

Little Effie shall go with me tomorrow to the green,

And you'll be there too, mother, to see me made the Queen;

For the shepherd lads on every side 'ill come from far away,

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

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