A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if Hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand - How few - yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep - while I weep O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? ~ Edgar A. Poe |
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