I have been happy, tho’ in a dream.I have been happy—and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strifeOf semblance with reality which bringsTo the delirious eye, more lovely thingsOf Paradise and Love—and all our own!Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.

Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream.