A deep brown-study rendered into simple black and white.

In reverie reflective, has your wayward fancy strayed,

It may be, to last summer's tryst in some wild English glade,

Or old-world forest-garden, where, like Rosalind in Arden,

Your troth you plighted, or, love-lorn, outmourned the Nut-brown Maid?

You're wand'ring in Mahatma-land, and counting astral sheep?

And gathering wool that never grew, a Brownie-led Bo-peep,

Or, possibly, pursuant of an Ego playing truant.

And lost amid the labyrinth of dim hypnotic sleep?

For all I know, you're musing in this meditative trance