Songtext von Dream within a Dream

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 yet if hope has flown away in a night,or in a day in a vision,or in none is it therefore the less gone? all that we see or seen is but a dream within a dream 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! O God!can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp? O God!can I not save one from the pitiless wave? is all that we see or seem bu a dream within a dream?