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1% title  : A dream within a dream
2% author : Edgar Allan Poe
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4% music  : Propaganda (on: A Secret Wish)
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7Take this kiss upon the brow!
8And, in parting from you now,
9Thus much let me avow 
10You are not wrong, who deem
11That my days have been a dream;
12Yet if hope has flown away
13In a night, or in a day,
14In a vision, or in none,
15Is it therefore the less gone?
16All that we see or seem
17Is but a dream within a dream.
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19I stand amid the roar
20Of a surf-tormented shore,
21And I hold within my hand
22Grains of the golden sand 
23How few! yet how they creep
24Through my fingers to the deep,
25While I weep  while I weep!
26O God! can I not grasp
27Them with a tighter clasp?
28O God! can I not save
29One from the pitiless wave?
30Is all that we see or seem
31But a dream within a dream?
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