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Poems

By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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CCXXVII
NOW

A crazy fool am I, and mad
As the maddest dreams of sleep.
I laughed when I was very sad,
And now for joy I weep.
The cold is here, the darkness drear,
The yellow gloom, the rain.
And, lo, in the winter of the year
'Tis spring with me again.