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A Dream Within A Dream

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Completed for 's contest. Theme is 'What we don't see'. Used three images from her stock gallery. Did some more playing in PS and discovered the vector mask! :evillaugh: Anyway...All I could think of was Edgar Allan Poe's line "All that we see or seem; is but a dream within a dream" You figure out the meaning! ;-)

Here's the entire poem - all rights reserved yadda yadda yadda... ;-)
A Dream Within a Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe
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?
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Rachastock's avatar
Hi Jen. Wanted to let you know that I'm featuring this as one of my favourites in my journal. :)