Of what she said to me that night—no matter.  
  The strange thing came next day.  
  My brain was full of music—something she played me—;  
  I couldn't remember it all, but phrases of it  
  Wreathed and wreathed among faint memories,  
  Seeking for something, trying to tell me something,  
  Urging to restlessness: verging on grief.  
  I tried to play the tune, from memory,—  
  But memory failed: the chords and discords climbed  
  And found no resolution—only hung there,  
  And left me morbid... Where, then, had I heard it?...
The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)























