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Dream Within A Dream -------------------- Take this kiss upon thy brow And in parting from you now, This much let me avow That 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 amidst 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. Oh God, can I not grasp them With a tighter clasp? Oh God, can I not save one From the pitiless wave? Is all we see or seem But a dream within a dream? - Edgar Allan Poe.