Dream Within a Dream Lyrics

1. 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.
Pre- ref: Is it therefore the less gone?

Ref: All that we see or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.

2. 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,
trough the fingers to the deep,
while I weep – while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp,
Pre- ref: Them with a tighter clasp?

Ref: Is all that we see or seem,
But a dream within a dream.

3. O God! Can I not save,
One from the pitiless wave?