* dream within dream *

* dream within dream * by Swt.Raaz 2014/01/31 06:39
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?