• How slight a thing may set one’s fancy drifting
      Upon the dead sea of the Past!—A view—
    Sometimes an odor—or a rooster lifting
      A far-off “Ooh! ooh-ooh!”

    And suddenly we find ourselves astray
      In some wood’s-pasture of the Long Ago,—
    Or idly dream again upon a day
      Of rest we used to know.

    I bit an apple but a moment since...

  • How slight a thing may set one’s fancy drifting
      Upon the dead sea of the Past!—A view—
    Sometimes an odor—or a rooster lifting
      A far-off “Ooh! ooh-ooh!”

    And suddenly we find ourselves astray
      In some wood’s-pasture of the Long Ago,—
    Or idly dream again upon a day
      Of rest we used to know.

    I bit an apple but a moment since...