XI

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

So you must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear,

Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad Newyear:

Tomorrow 'ill be of all the year the maddest merriest day,

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

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