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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!