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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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