O, Sweet Sometime + 

O, sweet Sometime, the gardens bloom the while I wait; + 

Each moment melts a tear of joy before thy gate; + 

It is thy pleasure that I burn⁠—it is my fate, + 

O, sweet Sometime! + 

O, when the moment in this interval is born. + 

When through this sleeping splendor breaks the lingering morn, + 

And when thy sensual silence laughs my noise to scorn⁠— + 

O, sweet Sometime! + 

Spare me the vacant moment yet⁠—O just awhile; + 

Expectancy, thy sweetest daughter, will beguile + 

My yearning hours; the shades reflected by her smile + 

Are now my haunts, O sweet Sometime. + 

The waiting while, O sweet Sometime, I can enjoy; + 

Thy heralding shadows every beating pang destroy, + 

And with their breath of musk and myrrh my soul they cloy, + 

O, sweet Sometime! + 

I tremble, I forget, I throb when once I hear + 

The dying interval announcing thou are near; + 

A touch, a groan, a kiss and thou wilt disappear, + 

With bitten lip, O, sweet Sometime! + 

And then the memory⁠—O, how it will oppress! + 

Far sweeter is Expectancy⁠—ah, let me press + 

The vigor from her limbs to mine; I’ll yet caress + 

The waiting while, O, sweet Sometime! + 