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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.
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And sometime of this day;
And now returning back again,
We bring a garland gay.
And at your door we stand;
It is a sprout, well budded out,
The work of our Lord’s hand.