A Moment Or a Million Years

Note: The song's chorus is in italics.
By James Harvey Stout (deceased). This material is now in the public domain.
The complete collection of Mr. Stout's songs is at http://www.james-harvey-stout.com/songs.htm .

How is your beauty different
From that of a perfect sky?
I lose myself in both.
You have infinite eyes.

How your hands different,
Or your hair streaked with gold,
From the loveliness I touch
In other people's soul?

A moment or a million years
I may be with you.
Are you a ripple on my river,
A cool diamond of dew?

A moment or a million years.
Where would you be,
If you knew:
The two are the same to me.

How can you trust
A man who is not sure
Which love is a dream,
Which love is yours?

I'm not to blame for
The flame that wakes me at dawn,
Or the sun that rises higher,
Or the fire that moves me on.

A moment or a million years
I may be with you.
Are you a ripple on my river,
A cool diamond of dew?

A moment or a million years.
Where would you be,
If you knew:
The two are the same to me.