of absent friends and memories

        For though we never spoke 

Of the gray water and the shaded rock,

Dark wave and stone unconsciously were fused

Into the plaintive speaking that we used

Of absent friends and memories unforsook;

And, had we seen each other's face, we had

        Seen haply each was sad.

[Elizabeth Barrett Browning {1806-1861} "v" from 'A Sea-Side Walk', in Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems]