Alfred Lord Tennyson

Beauties of Tennyson Alfred Lord Tennyson

Book Excerptarge they made!Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred![Illustration: "BOLDLY THEY RODE AND WELL."]FROM "THE MAY QUEEN."You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow 'ill 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. There's many a black black eye, they say, but none so bright as mine; There's Margaret and Mary, there's Kate and Caroline: But none so fair as little Alice in all the land they say, So I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.[Illustration: THE MAY QUEEN.]SONG FROM "THE PRINCESS."As thro' the land at eve we went, And pluck'd the ripen'd ears, We fell out, my wife and I, O we fell out I know not why, And kiss'd again with tears, And blessings on the falling outThat all the more endea