Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre - A Dream Within A Dream lyrics
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Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, a Dream within a dream, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem, I stand amid the roar, Of a surf-tormented shore, That my days have been a dream And I hold within my hand, Grains of certain golden sand, Yet if hope has flown away, In a night, or in a day, How few! Yet how they creep, Through my fingers to the deep, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? While I weep- while I weep! O Satan! Can I not grasp? [Original: "O God! can I not grasp"] All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream, Is all that we see or seem