Edgar Allen Poe: A dream within a dream

A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

TAKE this kiss upo the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus mich 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 grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pittiless wave?
Is all the we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
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