VIII

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

The honeysuckle round the porch has wov'n its wavy bowers,

And by the meadowtrenches blow the faint sweet cuckooflowers;

And the wild marshmarigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray,

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

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