Propaganda Dream Within A Dream lyrics

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream

Take this kiss upon the brow
And in parting from you now
This much let me avow
You are not wrong, who deemed

That my days have been a dream
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, in a day, in a vision or a memory
Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream

I stand amid the rock

Of the surf tormented shore
And I hold within my hands
Grains of golden sand

How few, yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep
While I weep
While I weep

Oh God, can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp?
Oh God, can I not save one from the pitiless wave
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?