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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 anight, 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 haond

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 we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?