III

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

If you do not call me loud when the day begins to break:

But I must gather knots of flowers, and buds and garlands gay,

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

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