A Dream within a Dream
A Dream within a Dream
Take this kiss
upon the brow!
And, in parting from you know,
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 none
Is it therfor the less gone?
In a vision, or none
Is it therfor the less gone?
All that we see
or all that we 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
All that we see
or all that we seem
Is but a dream within a dream
How few - yet - how they creep
Through my fingers - to the deep
while I weep - while I weep
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 a pitiless wave?
O God! can I not save
One from a pitiless wave?
All that we see
or all that we seem
Is but a dream within a dream