DEPRESSION BEFORE SPRING
            Wallace Stevens
                p. 1923
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    The cock crows
    But no queen rises.
    
    The hair of my blonde
    Is dazzling,
    As the spittle of cows
    threading the wind.
    
    Ho! Ho!
    
    But ki-ki-ri-ki
    Brings no rou-cou-cou,
    No rou-cou-cou.
    
    But no queen comes
    In slipper green.
    
    
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