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A Dream Within A Dream.

Music: Vladimir Ched
Lyrics: Edgar Allan Poe

1.
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,

2.
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.

Versus.
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

3.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand–

4.
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?

Versus.
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Coda.
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow—
That all we see or seem
But a dream within a dream.