Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="THE_QUEENS_PAGE" id="THE_QUEENS_PAGE"></SPAN>THE QUEEN'S PAGE</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Once I was a little page<br/></span> <span class="i2">To a May-day queen,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And I wore a little coat<br/></span> <span class="i2">Made of Lincoln green.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Oh, the queen was beautiful!<br/></span> <span class="i2">And she had a bright<br/></span> <span class="i0">Crown of golden cuckoo-buds<br/></span> <span class="i2">And violets blue and white.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">On the step beside her throne<br/></span> <span class="i2">I sat very still,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Ready, as a page should be,<br/></span> <span class="i2">To obey her will.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And before us little girls,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Each with garlands gay,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Round a May-pole danced and sang<br/></span> <span class="i2">Almost all the day.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />