Ever have a brilliant thought

that flees straight from your mind

You wonder, will it return

Have I the chance to find...

The moment that I'd love to share

with those I love to love

It's gone-alas

this fleet idea

and left me here alone.

A thought went up my mind to-day

That I have had before,

But did not finish,---some way back,

I could not fix the year,

Nor where it went, nor why it came

The second time to me,

Nor definitely what it was,

Have I the art to say.

But somewhere in my soul, I know

I've met the thing before;

It just reminded me--'t was all--

And came my way no more.

E.D.---of course ;)