- The be-ribboned Maypole above us,
- Ordained of the God of the Wood,
- Bright Maypole above us!
- Tonight, the night of the pole of ecstasy,
- The pole of rapture beloved of the Goddess,
- Bright Maypole above us!
- Noble the staff! Noble the wand!
- Noble the Man of this night.
- Bright Maypole above us!
- It was Bride the fair who went on her knee,
- It was the antlered King who received her kiss.
- Bright Maypole above us!
- I hear the hills, I hear the seas,
- I hear the standing stones of earth,
- Bright Maypole above us!
- Noble the spear! Noble the broom!
- Noble the cock horse on which we ride!
- Bright Maypole above us!
- I hear Deirdre of the shapely, rounded limbs,
- Coming softly in friendship to him.
- Bright Maypole above us!
- Great the assemblage upon this knoll,
- Without the envy of man to another.
- Bright Maypole above us!
- I am the servant of the Cerne Abbas Giant,
- Oh! arise thou thyself, and dance about me!
- Bright Maypole above us!
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