Out of your whole life give but a moment! <br />All of your life that has gone before, <br />All to come after it, -- so you ignore, <br />So you make perfect the present, condense, <br />In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, <br />Thought and feeling and soul and sense, <br />Merged in a moment which gives me at last <br />You around me for once, you beneath me, above me -- <br />Me, sure that, despite of time future, time past, <br />This tick of life-time's one moment you love me! <br />How long such suspension may linger? Ah, Sweet, <br />The moment eternal -- just that and no more -- <br />When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core, <br />While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!<br /><br />Robert Browning<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/now-3/
