Elysian Fields – Dream within a dream

( 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 …