A Dream within a Dream

Song A Dream within a Dream
Artist Sopor Æternus & the Ensemble of Shadows
Album Poetica

Lyrics

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[00:00.93] A Dream Within a Dream - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
[01:59.39] Take this kiss upon the brow!
[02:04.14] And, in parting from you now,
[02:12.17] Thus much let me avow-
[02:23.15] You are not wrong, who deem
[02:26.99] That my days have been a dream;
[02:30.36] Yet if hope has flown away
[02:36.96] In a night, or in a day,
[02:40.01] In a vision, or in none,
[02:43.41] Is it therefore the less gone?
[02:50.39] All that we see or seem
[03:02.19] Is but a dream within a dream.
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[03:42.89] I stand amid the roar
[03:46.50] Of a surf-tormented shore,
[03:54.68] And I hold within my hand
[03:59.00] Grains of the golden sand-
[04:07.58] How few! yet how they creep
[04:13.91] Through my fingers to the deep,
[04:20.25] While I weep- while I weep!
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[04:34.93] O God! can I not grasp
[04:41.65] Them with a tighter clasp?
[04:46.60] O God! can I not save
[04:52.74] One from the pitiless wave?
[05:00.34] Is all that we see or seem
[05:12.57] But a dream within a dream?
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