Dream Within a Dream

( edgar allan poe )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

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dreamI stand amid the roar

Of a surf tormented shore

And I hold within my hands

Grains of the golden sand

Oh how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep

While I weep while I weep

Oh God can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp

Oh God can I not save

One from the pitiless wave

Is all that we see or seem

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream

Dream, dream, dream ...