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Läsebok. N:o 76 — 77.
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with May-poles. The gayest scene of all on May-Day now
is, perhaps, that of the danciug chimney-sweepers. At an
early hour the chimney-sweepers set off to go round the
neighbourhood; all their faces are painted in an odd way,
and their clothes are odder still. They are dressed up in
strips of paper, and shreds of linen, of all the colours of the
rainbow, with caps of the same kind on their heads. One
carries a dust-pan and a brush, which he knocks together.
Another shakes and rattles two hard dry bones between his
fingers, and makes noise enough to be heard half a mile off.
A third jingles a steel triangle. All these keep hopping, and
jumping, and turning round together, making as much noise
as they can.
74. The National Anthem.
God save our gracious Queen,
God save our noble Queen,
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen!
O Lord, our God, arise,
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall!
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On her our hopes we fix,
God save us all!
Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour,
Long may she reign;
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
______O
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!
O grant her long to see
Friendship and amity
Always increase!
May she her sceptre sway,
All loyal souls obey,
Join heart and voice: Huzza!
God save the Queen!
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