Take this kiss upon the brow
让这个吻落在你的额前吧
And, in parting from you now
如今，在你我离别之际
Thus much let me avow
就让我承认这一点
You are not wrong, who deem
你并没有错，你说
That my days have been a dream
我的时光不过是一场梦

Yet if hope has flown away
而如果希望已经流逝
In a night, or in a day
在夜晚，或是白天
In a vision, or in none
是有形，或是无形
Is it therefore the less gone?
它难道能因此放缓脚步?
All that we see or seem
我们所看到或感知的一切
Is but a dream within a dream
不过是场梦中之梦

I stand amid the roar
我站在浪涛的吼声中
Of a surf-tormented shore
在那惊涛汹涌的海岸
And I hold within my hand
我的手心攥着
Grains of the golden sand
金色的沙粒
How few! yet how they creep
太少了！而它们还在逃离
Through my fingers to the deep
从我的指缝溜向深处
While I weep while I weep
而我只能哭泣——只能哭泣

O God! Can I not grasp
哦上帝！难道我不能
Them with a tighter clasp?
更紧地抓住它们吗?
O God! can I not save
哦上帝！难道我不能
One from the pitiless wave?
从无情的海浪中挽留一粒沙子吗？
Is all that we see or seem
难道我们所看到或感知的一切
But a dream within a dream？
不过是场梦中之梦?