The Sundial - A Dream within a Dream lyrics

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 (a dream) [2x] 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 All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream (a dream) [2x] O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave (wave... wave...)? [violin solo] 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! Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?