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The Lover In Winter Plaineth For The Spring

Anonymous

O western wind, when wilt thou blow
  That the small rain down can rain?
Christ, that my love were in my arms
  And I in my bed again!
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From The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900 | Clarendon, 1919
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