“I’ve seen many things my friend, but you’re right. Nothing quite as wonderful as the things you see.”

A dream within a dream.

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?

a dream within a dream

edgar allan poe.

Abraham's daughter.

Abraham took Isaac's hand
and led him to the lonesome hill. 

While his daughter hid and watched,
she dare not breathe. She was so still. 

Just as an angel cried for the slaughter,
Abraham's daughter raised her voice. 

Then the angel asked her what her name was,
she said "I have none". 

Then he asked "how can this be?"
"my father never gave me one". 

And when he saw her, raised for the slaughter,
Abraham's daughter raised her bow. 

How darest you, child, defy your father?
you better let young Isaac go.