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Poems

By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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Ask me not how it came,
If I sought it!
My very thoughts are flame
Since first I thought it.

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I saw it not with eyes.
It was not spoken.
These mysteries
Have neither sign nor token.
Ah! say not, “Is it true?”
In faith uphold me!
I know not how I knew.
My heart told me.