My goodness, demanding aren't we? **Big Grin**

Best I've found is "Author Unknown," though there was a reference on one board, where someone else was looking for the same info, to Auden's As I walked out one evening which does have a similar verse:

'O plunge your hands in water,
   Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
   And wonder what you've missed.

but the rest of the poem is unlike the one above.

So, let's hear it for good ol' Anon-ee-mouse!LOL

kat