waiting booth

A star looks down at me,

And says: 'Here I and you

Stand, each in our degree:

What do you mean to do, -

Mean to do?'

I say: 'For all I know,

Wait, and let Time go by,

Till my change come,' - 'Just so,'

The star says: 'So mean I: -

So mean I.'

Thomas Hardy. Waiting Booth.