Dim, by the dim bridge-stile, he seemed to see

A figure standing mute; a woman--it was she.

She stood quite stilly, waiting for him there.

She did not seem surprised; the meeting seemed

Planned from all time by powers in the air

To change their human fates; he even deemed

That in another life this thing had gleamed,

This meeting by the bridge. He said, "It's you."

"Yes, I," she said, "who else? You must have known; you knew

"That I should come here to the brook to see,