Take this kiss upon the brow! Thus much let me avow— You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Oh, led astray— Yet if hope has flown away Oh, led astray— In a night or in a day ♪ In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? And I hold within my hand The grains of the golden sand— Oh, while I weep— How few! yet how, yet how they creep Oh, while I weep— Through my fingers to the deep And is all that we seem Just an endless, pitiless dream? Are we swept away by a stream? Is it all just a dream in a dream? Oh please, let me awake, Hear my plea; for God's sake! Let me find the way out of the darkest night! ♪ O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the cheerless wave? And is all that we seem Just an endless, pitiless dream? Are we swept away by a stream? Is it all just a dream in a dream? Oh please, let me awake, Hear my plea; for God's sake! Let me find the way out of the darkest night! ♪ And is all that we see or we seem Just an endless, pitiless dream? Are we swept away by a stream? Is it all just a dream in a dream? Oh please, let me awake, Hear my plea; for God's sake! Let me follow the way in the saving light!