VIII

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

And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers;


And the wild marsh-marigold 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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