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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The May Queen.
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