A DREAM WITHIN A DREAMBy Edgar Allan PoeTake this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow—You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream:Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision or in none,Is it therefore the less gone ?

All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roarOf a surf-tormented shore,And I hold within my handGrains of the golden sand—How few!

yet how they creepThrough my fingers to the deepWhile I weep—while I weep!

O God!

can I not graspThem with a tighter clasp?

O God!

can I not saveOne from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?

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