Danse Macabre - A Dream Within A Dream lyrics

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now A Dream within a dream Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore That my days have been a dream And I hold within my hand Grains of certain golden sand Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day How few! Yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep In a vision, or in none Is it therefore the less gone? While I weep- while I weep! O Satan! Can I not grasp? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream Is all that we see or seem