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?

Blah! So yesterday was our family day. The one day of the week Crusader is off work and we all spend time together as a family. So we took the kids to the Edgar Allen Poe museum in Philly. I highly suggest you people to go visit it! For one, it's FREE, and two, its the only preserved home in that district (which Edgar himself used to live in!). It's amazing! While he lived there, he wrote The Pit and the Pendulum and The Black Cat. The cellar in the house looks EXACTLY how he describes the cellar in The Black Cat. It was really creepy. Walking around there also made me appreciate the architecture of our past. It was a great little family outing. And with a bonus; we got to eat dinner for free at P-bread thanks to Lisa! Food always tastes much better when it's free!