A Dream Within A Dream
Edgar Allan Poe
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,
Is it 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,
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?
Write the lyrics for a misc song made in 1849, titled "A Dream Within A Dream", by artist "Edgar Allan Poe".