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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 it
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
life - times 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!
Robert Browning
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