Amanda Tosoff and Emilie-Claire Barlow - A Dream Within a Dream

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?

ooh, ooh
ooh, ooh

Written by:
TOM GILBERT, GUSTAV MAHLER, EDGAR ALLAN POE, INGA HUMPE, MORITZ EGGERT, EDGAR ALLEN POE, FRIEDRICH RUECKERT

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