Mistaken

By Vikram Seth

I smiled at you because i thought that you were someone else ; you smiled back ; and there grew

Between two strangers in a library

Something that seemed like love ; but you loved me

( If that's the word ) because you thought that i

Was other than i was, And by and by

We found we'd been mistaken all the while

From that first glance, that first mistaken smile.

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