THE SONG OF THE WILD ROSE FAIRY

I am the queen whom everybody knows:
I am the English Rose;
As light and free as any Jenny Wren,
As dear to Englishmen;
As joyous as a Robin Redbreast’s tune.
I scent the air of June;
My buds are rosy as a baby’s check;
I have one word to speak,
One word which is my secret and my song,
This “England, England, England” all day long.