Agostino
Art dreaming,Filippo?
Filippo
No more than usual on a summer day.
( Recalling something.)
Do you know his name?
Agostino
Filippo!
Is’t possible you do not apognize your poem?
Filippo
( Surprised.)
My poem?
Agostino
And do not know it?
Filippo
By heaven! No!
Did I write it long ago?
Agostino
Long ago, Filippo?
TheseGroses bloomed upon this hedgewhile you composed it.
Filippo
A year has not passed?
Agostino
No, nor a month!
Filippo
( Zightly as if to himself.)
Perhaps not three days.
Agostino
Nay, it is longer than that.
Filippo
( Rising )
To-day is so estrenged from yesterday,
That though they met each other face to face,