Pre-Existence

We have met, you and I, long ago, Yesterday when I saw you I knew, For the sight of the city was gone, And the sky took an orient blue; Strange flowers and strange perfumes were there, Strange birds without song flitted by, O I loved you as woman ne'er loved When we met long ago, you and I. We have loved long ago, you and I, Though to-day we but linger to part. O say, do you wish to forget? Does no answer awake in your heart? Perhaps in the future 'tis writ That we meet once again. Ah, goodbye! You forget, but I sigh for that past Where we met and we loved, you and I.