A dream within a dream (Ty Kroll)
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- CPDL #07126:
- Editor: Ty Kroll (submitted 2004-05-29). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 256 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Dream Within a Dream, A
Composer: Ty Kroll
Lyricist: Edgar Allan Poe
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
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?