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<blockquote data-quote="cw_" data-source="post: 784206" data-attributes="member: 114"><h3>A Dream Within a Dream</h3>BY <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edgar-allan-poe" target="_blank">EDGAR ALLAN POE</a>Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow —You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.I stand amid the roarOf a surf-tormented shore,And I hold within my handGrains of the golden sand —How few! yet how they creepThrough my fingers to the deep,While I weep — while I weep!O God! Can I not graspThem with a tighter clasp?O God! can I not saveOne from the pitiless wave?Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cw_, post: 784206, member: 114"] [HEADING=2]A Dream Within a Dream[/HEADING] BY [URL='https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edgar-allan-poe']EDGAR ALLAN POE[/URL] 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 [I]gone[/I]? [I]All[/I] 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 [I]One[/I] from the pitiless wave? Is [I]all[/I] that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? [/QUOTE]

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