
Out of your whole life give but a moment!
All of your life that has gone before,
All to come after it---so you ignore,
So you make perfect the present---condense,
In a rapture of rage, for perfections endowment,
Thought and feeling and soul and sense---

Merged in a moment which gives me at last
You around me for once, you beneath me, above me---
Me---sure that despite of time future, time past---
This tick of our lifetimes one moment you love me!

How long such suspension may linger? Ah, Sweet---
The moment eternal---just that and no more---
When ecstasys utmost we clutch at the core
While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips meet!
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