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Old 08-15-2019, 08:19 PM   #1
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A Dream Within a Dream

BY EAP


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 seem
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
But a dream within a dream?
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Old 08-17-2019, 03:48 AM   #2
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Re: A Dream Within a Dream

I like this. Sometimes I find it difficult to keep up a rhyme scheme and still remain relevant to the topic or to continue to drive towards the original point.

Sometimes I try to stretch too hard and far to make them work. . . you've done it well here.

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