Alfred, Lord Tennyson - To ­ ­ ("As when, with downcast eyes...") lyrics

As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood, And ebb into a former life, or seem To lapse far back in some confused 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 look'd upon your face, Our thought gave answer each to each, so true ­ Opposed 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.