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As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, And ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in a confusèd dream To states of mystical similitude; If one but speaks or hems or stirs his chair, Ever the wonder waxeth more and more, So that we say, "All this hath been before, All this hath been, I know not when or where." So, friend, when first I looked upon your face, Our thought gave answer, each to each, so true, Opposèd mirrors each reflecting each— Altho' I knew not in what time or place, Methought that I had often met with you, And each had lived in the other's mind and speech.