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?
In a vision, or in none
Is it therefore the less gone?

[Chorus]
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
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! yеt how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep
Whilе 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?

[Chorus]
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream