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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

May-Day Song

By Myths and Folk-Lore of the Aryan Peoples

From Sir James George Frazer’s ‘Golden Bough.’ Abingdon in Berkshire. Variant of folk rhymes that survive from the old Aryan tree-worship, associated with May Day.

WE’VE been rambling all the night,

And sometime of this day;

And now returning back again,

We bring a garland gay.

A garland gay we bring you here,

And at your door we stand;

It is a sprout, well budded out,

The work of our Lord’s hand.