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- The May Queen
YOU must wake and call me early, call me early,
mother dear;
To-morrow 'll be the happiest time of all the glad
new-year, –
Of all the glad new-year, mother, the maddest,
merriest day;
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to
be Queen o' the May.
As I came up the valley, whom think ye should
I see
But Robin leaning on the bridge beneath the
hazel-tree?
He thought of that sharp look, mother, I gave
him yesterday, –
But I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to
be Queen o' the May.
They say he's dying all for love, – but that can
never be;
They say his heart is breaking, mother, – what
is that to me?
There's many a bolder lad 'll woo me any sum-
mer day;
And I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to
be Queen o' the May.
If I can, I'll come again, mother, from out my
resting-place;
Though you'll not see me, mother, I shall look
upon your face;
Though I cannot speak a word, I shall hearken
what you say,
And be often, often with you when you think I'm
far away.
So now I think my time is near; I trust it is.
I know
The blessed music went that way my soul will
have to go.
And for myself, indeed, I care not if I go to-day;
But Effie, you must comfort her when I am past
away.
And say to Robin a kind word, and tell him not
to fret;
There's many worthier than I, would make him
happy yet.
If I had lived – I cannot tell – I might have
been his wife;
But all these things have ceased to be, with my
desire of life.
Forever and forever, all in a blessed home,
And there to wait a little while till you and
Effie come, –
To lie within the light of God, as I lie upon your
breast, –
And the wicked cease from troubling, and the
weary are at rest. (en)
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