Dream Within A Dream

All that we see or seem
 Is but a dream within a dream
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 Take this kiss upon the brow
 And in parting from you now
 This much let me avow
 You are not wrong, who deemed
 That my days have been a dream
 Yet if hope has flown away
 In a night, in a day, in a vision, or a memory
 Is it therefore the less gone?
 All that we see or seem
 Is but a dream within a dream
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 I stand amid the roar
 Of a surf tormented shore
 And I hold within my hands
 Grains of 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 that we see or seem
 But a dream within a dream?