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’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I ’m to be Queen o’ the May.\t\r\n \r\nI sleep so sound all night, mother, that I shall never wake,\t\r\nIf you do not call me loud when the day begins to break;\t        \r\nBut I must gather knots of flowers and buds, and garlands gay;\t\r\nFor I ’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I ’m to be Queen o’ the May.\t\r\n \r\nAs I came up the valley, whom think ye should I see\t\r\nBut Robin leaning on the bridge beneath the hazel-tree?\t\r\nHe thought of that sharp look, mother, I gave him yesterday,—\t        \r\nBut I ’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I ’m to be Queen o’ the May.\t\r\n \r\nHe thought I was a ghost, mother, for I was all in white;\t\r\nAnd I ran by him without speaking, like a flash of light.\t\r\nThey call me cruel-hearted, but I care not what they say,\t\r\nFor I ’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I ’m to be Queen o’ the May.\t        \r\n \r\nThey say he ’s dying all for love,—but that can never be;\t\r\nThey say his heart is breaking, mother,—what is that to me?\t\r\nThere ’s many a bolder lad ’ll woo me any summer day;\t\r\nAnd I ’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I ’m to be Queen o’ the May.\t\r\n \r\nLittle Effie shall go with me to-morrow to the green,\t       \r\nAnd you ’ll be there, too, mother, to see me made the Queen;\t\r\nFor the shepherd lads on every side ’ll come from far away;\t\r\nAnd I ’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I ’m to be Queen o’ the May.\t\r\n \r\nThe honeysuckle round the porch has woven its wavy bowers,\t\r\nAnd by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers;\t       \r\nAnd the wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray;\t\r\nAnd I ’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I ’m to be Queen o’ the May.\t\r\n \r\nThe night-winds come and go, mother, upon the meadow-grass,\t\r\nAnd the happy stars above them seem to brighten as they pass;\t\r\nThere will not be a drop of rain the whole of the livelong day;\t       \r\nAnd I ’m to be Queen o’ the May, 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