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<h3>A Dream within a Dream</h3>
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<blockquote>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?</blockquote><br/>
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