“Found Yet Lost”

I’ve watched and waited 20 years

     My ideal face to see;

I’ve dreamed and themed and sketched until

     I know her perfectly.

Today I met her on the street,

     ‘Twas her, my joy, my life;

But – O, ye gods and little perch!

     She was another’s wife!

c. July 24, 1894

Pub. Dec. 1, ’95,

B. Courier