I

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Mask

I HAVE a smiling face, she said,

I have a jest for all I meet;

I have a garland for my head,

And all its flowers are sweet,—

And so you call me gay, she said.

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