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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?




Edgar Allan Poe