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THE MAY QUEEN.
Lovers, lasses, reapers, mowers,Hedgers, delvers, toilers, sowers,
Come and dance with steps untired;
For this day you are required
To do honour to our queen
Crowned with flowers and rushes green.
Never Maytime did present
Such a wondrous ornament,
No, nor spring the meadows kiss
For a blossom fair as this.
Pray we now that Heaven may shower
All its blessings on her bower,
And that Time may bring her more
Ever to increase her store.
Thus we sing and thus we move
Holy Powers to grant their love.
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