Dream Within A Dream Lyrics - Elysian Fields

( edgar allan poe ) 

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 

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 hands 

Grains of the golden sand 

Oh how they creep 

Through my fingers to the deep 

While I weep while I weep 

Oh God can I not grasp 

Them with a tighter clasp 

Oh God can I not save 

One from the pitiless wave 

Is all that we see or seem 

Is all that we see or seem 

But a dream within a dream 

Dream, dream, dream ...