An Hour + 

You only promised me a single hour: + 

But in that hour I journeyed through a year + 

Of life: the joy of finding you⁠—the fear + 

Of losing you again⁠—the sense of power + 

To make you all my own⁠—the sudden shower + 

Of tears that came because you were more dear + 

Than words could ever tell you⁠—then⁠—the clear + 

Soft rapture when I plucked love’s crimson flower. + 

An hour⁠—a year⁠—I felt your bosom rise + 

And fall with mystic tides, and saw the gleam + 

Of undiscovered stars within your eyes⁠— + 

A year⁠—an hour? I knew not, for the stream + 

Of love had carried me to Paradise, + 

Where all the forms of Time are like a dream. + 