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 perfection's endowment,
Thought and feeling and soul and sense,
Merged in a moment which give 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 lifetime's one moment you love me!
How long such suspension may linger? Ah, Sweet,
The moment eternal-just that and no more-
When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core,
While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips meet!
