A Dream Within a Dream lyrics

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow

Oooh

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 therefore the less gone?

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, yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep

Yet if hope has flown away in a night or in a day

In a vision, or in none

Is therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream

While 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?

Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?

Yet if hope has flown away in a night or in a day

In a vision, or in none

Is therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream