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 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 life-time'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!