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A Dream Within A Dream | Poems by Edgar Allan Poe · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Take this kiss upon the brow, and in parting from
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  Speaker 1: you now thus much, let me avow you are not
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  Speaker 1: wrong who deem that my days have been a dream. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: if hope has flown away in a night, or in
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  Speaker 1: a day, in a vision, or in none, is it
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  Speaker 1: therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem
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  Speaker 1: is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid
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  Speaker 1: the roar of a surf tormented shore, and I hold
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  Speaker 1: within my hand grains of the golden sand. How few, yet,
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  Speaker 1: how they creep through my fingers to the deep, while
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  Speaker 1: I weep. While I weep, O God, can I not
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  Speaker 1: grasp them with a tighter clasp? O God? Can I
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  Speaker 1: not save one from the pitiless wave? Is all that
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  Speaker 1: we see or seem but a dream within a dream