To...As when with downcast eyes

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3>To &shy; &shy; ("As when, with downcast eyes...")</h3> <blockquote>As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood,<br/> And ebb into a former life, or seem<br/> To lapse far back in some confused dream<br/> To states of mystical similitude;<br/> If one but speaks or hems or stirs his chair,<br/> Ever the wonder waxeth more and more,<br/> So that we say, "All this hath been before,<br/> All this <i>hath</i> been, I know not when or where".<br/> So, friend, when first I look'd upon your face,<br/> Our thought gave answer each to each, so true &shy;<br/> Opposed mirrors each reflecting each &shy;<br/> Altho' I knew not in what time or place,<br/> Methought that I had often met with you,<br/> And each had lived in the other's mind and speech.</blockquote> <br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />