QUOTE : I stand amid the roar<br />Of a surf-tormented shore,<br />And I hold within my hand<br />Grains of the golden sand-<br />How few! yet how they creep<br />Through my fingers to the deep,<br />While I weep- while I weep!<br />O God! can I not grasp<br />Them with a tighter clasp?<br />O God! can I not save<br />One from the pitiless wave?<br />Is all that we see or seem<br />But a dream within a dream?<br /><br />― A Dream Within a Dream.