A Dream Within A Dream (Huub de Lange)

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Editor: Huub de Lange (submitted 2007-08-09).   Score information: A4, 13 pages   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A Dream Within A Dream
Composer: Huub de Lange
Lyricist: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 2007

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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?