A Dream Within a Dream - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows

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 seen

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

Bu a dream within a dream?