<h2><i><SPAN name="A_DREAM_WITHIN_A_DREAM"></SPAN>A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM</i></h2>
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Take this kiss upon the brow!<br/>
And, in parting from you now,<br/>
Thus much let me avow—<br/>
You are not wrong, who deem<br/>
That my days have been a dream;<br/>
Yet if hope has flown away<br/>
In a night, or in a day,<br/>
In a vision, or in none,<br/>
Is it therefore the less <i>gone?</i><br/>
<i>All</i> that we see or seem<br/>
Is but a dream within a dream.<br/>
<br/>
I stand amid the roar<br/>
Of a surf-tormented shore,<br/>
And I hold within my hand<br/>
Grains of the golden sand—<br/>
How few! yet how they creep<br/>
Through my fingers to the deep,<br/>
While I weep—while I weep!<br/>
O God! can I not grasp<br/>
Them with a tighter clasp?<br/>
O God! can I not save<br/>
<i>One</i> from the pitiless wave?<br/>
Is <i>all</i> that we see or seem<br/>
But a dream within a dream?<br/></p>
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