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.
All that we see or seem
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 grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God!can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?